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From: gandreas@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Glenn Andreas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ramblings about exploration of OS-Release 6.0 MultiFinder (on a rainy Sunday afternoon)
Keywords: bugs or "features" ??!!  )-:
Message-ID: <382@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
Date: 11 Jul 88 15:18:42 GMT
References: <2880@utastro.UUCP>
Reply-To: gandreas@ub.d.umn.edu.UUCP (Glenn Andreas)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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In article <2880@utastro.UUCP> werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
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>   [ Follow-ups to this article will go to comp.sys.mac ONLY, by default ]
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>so I spend Sunday afternoon polishing my Mac-interface;  I try to set things
>up so that when the Mac boots, it gives me a choice to either run Finder
>or MultiFinder in the "most convenient way" ....
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>Now, let's see, how does MultiFinder know what applications to bring up??!!
>.... hmmm.... it wouldn't be using the file
>"Finder Startup" now, or would it?  that wouldn't be right ......
Now, the following tricks have only been tested with system 5.0, but they
should work for 6.0 as well.  Yes, Multifinder does use the Finder Startup
file.
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> and making multiple
>sets for different purposes would be so much easier too ...  oh, do I hope
>there is an easier way ....

Well, if, from UniFinder, you do as Set Startup or from Multifinder say
 Using current applications and DA's, the file "Finder Startup" is made
with all that information.  Now, rename the file to something like
Word/Excel Set, or whatever is appropriate.  Now, the next time you want
to use this set, from the UniFinder, select Multifinder FIRST, then the
set (shift clicking) then command-option click Multifinder.  Away it goes,
starting those things up.  If I remember correctly, if Multifinder is already
running, double clicking on the set will also load it in.  I'm not sure what
will happen if you already have applications loaded, but I'm assuming it
would work as expected.  Now you can have all the conveinence of application
sets.  The only thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to specify a
combination of documents and da's.  (Document start ups can only be specified
in UniFinder, da's are specified in Multifinder).

By the way, all of this information is stored in a resource in the Finder
Startup file, but beyond seeing the file names there, as well as memory
sizes (if I remember correctly) there was a whole load of other numbers/
garbage, with no clue to what they mean.  Anybody know the format of these
resources?


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