[comp.sys.mac] FKEY to blow away the finder - what

hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (07/09/88)

>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