urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (02/12/90)
In comp.sys.mac, article <6JSD3FJ@cs.swarthmore.edu>
jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw) writes:
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< This presumably relates to the fact that an increasing number of users now
< run Multifinder. In Multifinder, Finder never quits, so the old option-key
< meaning (close windows on quitting Finder) never has a chance to operate
< (except, I guess, after a Shutdown or Restart).
<
< The new behavior, called "tunneling," is meant to assist you in limiting
< open windows in the Finder without ever having to quit the Finder.
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Do not try this in Finder or MultiFinder:
1- Open a window
2- Go to step 1 unless you see the "Can't open any more windows" dialog
3- Option-double-click a folder
Finder crashes spectacularly. Not good.
Workaround (until System 6.0.5 or 7.0 or whatever) is, of course, to edit the
Finder's LAYO resource's max number of open windows to 40 or so.
Believe me, even if you have 1000 folders on your hard disk (I have), there's
no way you are ever going to have 40 folder windows open. ;-)
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Don't forget to increase the Finder's memory partition. 160 kBytes are very
inadequate even with only 12 open windows.
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Matthias Urlichs