Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!decwrl!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!a.cs.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!hirchert From: hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: FKEY to blow away the finder - what Message-ID: <46100180@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 9 Jul 88 16:46:00 GMT Lines: 24 Nf-ID: #R:<8807081621.AA09328@decwrl.dec.c:-35:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:46100180:000:973 Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!hirchert Jul 9 11:46:00 1988 >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? > QuicKeys launch doesn't work without the Finder, it appears. > I suppose (he rambles), that one could load into the DA layer one of those > random desk accessories that launches programs, then blow away the Finder, > and launch the applications from the DA layer. Am I on the right track? > Thanks for any insight. > >Confused, >Rich I use the Teleport FKEY that was posted to comp.binaries.mac a few months back. Kurt W. Hirchert hirchert@ncsa.uiuc.edu National Center for Supercomputing Applications