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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 ...:-)

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