Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!husc6!endor!singer From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) 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: <4940@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 13 Jul 88 20:38:07 GMT References: <2880@utastro.UUCP> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: singer@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) Organization: Symantec/THINK Technologies, Bedford, MA Lines: 45 In article <2880@utastro.UUCP> werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes: >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" .... > >I try to use "ToMultiFinder-1.1" as StartUp-application..... Let me comment, since I wrote ToMultiFinder. First, it's not part of the Apple system distribution; it's an independently written shareware program. >... uh, wait, if it is not in the "blessed folder", it can't find Finder >and MultiFinder (at least, I could not get it to do it by specifying a >path; could be my fault) Read the documentation that's supplied with ToMultiFinder. It explicitly says that ToMultiFinder needs to be in the system folder. >Anyway, I put "ToMultiFinder-1.1" in my "blessed folder" and try to make it >the StartUp-application again .... > >.... can't do that! the name of the Application is "too long" (I am told)!! Mine is called "ToMultiFinder", which seems to be just fine >well, shorten the name to "ToMF" - now it's acceptable! (I wonder what would >happen if I had buried my blessed folder deeper in the folder-hierarchy. Nothing. The name length limit is a constant, and is not dependent on how deep the startup program is. Again, RTFM. Select the applications you want to startup, and Set Startup to them with "MultiFinder" being the selected startup shell. The system will then put a "Finder Startup" document in the System Folder. Then, Set Startup to ToMultiFinder with "Finder" as the selected startup shell. Then reboot. Rich Siegel THINK Technologies