Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!ut-ngp!kraut From: kraut@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Multifinder Woes Message-ID: <6952@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 14:26:46 EST Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.6952 Posted: Fri Nov 27 14:26:46 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 22:30:45 EST References: <2272@utastro.UUCP> <6929@ut-ngp.UUCP> <2351@emory.uucp> Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 30 Keywords: multifinder desk accessories Summary: if you first click on the Apple the push OPTION before selecting DA ... In article <2351@emory.uucp>, riddle@emory.uucp (Larry Riddle) writes: > > If you hold down option before pulling down the apple menu, then > >the DA is opened within the applications sector, and it should work as usual > This method needs some modification to work if you are running > Suitcase. When you hold down the option key before pulling down the > move to the end of the menu where the currently open applications under > apple menu, none of the DA's will appear .... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ that is not what happens on my system where SOME DAs show, though not all. what I might have been doing different from you is that I have SEVERAL Suitcase-files in the folder DAs .... (named System-4.2-DAs, SideKick-2.0-DAs, PD-DAs, ....) and if the one I want is one of the ones not showing .... > ..... thus allowing you to quickly > multifinder are listed. However, all you have to do, after holding down > the option key, is to click on the Suitcase menu selection. This will > bring up a dialog box with all the DA's installed in the system or > suitcase files, and you can then make your selection and open the DA > from there. .... so I did not push the OPTION until *AFTER* I had clicked on the Apple to open the DA-menu and only *THEN* pushed the OPTION *BEFORE* selecting the DA which I wanted .... (you guessed right, it was one of those not showing the first time around ...:-) -- werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (prefered address) kraut@ut-ngp.uucp (if you must)