Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!elroy!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!palmer
From: palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FKEY to blow away the finder - what's it for?
Message-ID: <7210@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 8 Jul 88 23:57:17 GMT
References: <8807081621.AA09328@decwrl.dec.com>
Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu
Reply-To: palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (David Palmer)
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Lines: 18

In article <8807081621.AA09328@decwrl.dec.com> long@rainbo.dec.com (Now HE will ask the questions!) writes:
>Hi,
>
>  I finally put together the A9F4 FKEY to perform an ExitToShell.  What
>  I'd like to know is "what's it good for?".  People have been saying that
>  it can be used under MultiFinder to blow away the Finder, thus giving
>  more free memory, but how does this work?  If all applications have
>  been loaded, blowing away the Finder doesn't help, and if they have not, it
>  still doesn't help, because then how does the application get loaded? 

Some programs launch other programs under Multifinder, most notably
Lightspeed C version 3.0.  You have to get rid of the finder (and change
SIZE resources) to allow LSC3.0 to sublaunch the source-level debugger
if you have only 1 Mb of memory.

		David Palmer
		palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu
		...rutgers!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!palmer
				"Walt sent me"