Re: [MacPerl] - Unix vs Mac file commands

["Thomas R. Kimpton" <tkimpton@maned.com>]

>>I just got MPW with Toolserver and am
>>curious how others on the list are using them with MacPerl.
>
>IMHO Apple made a mistake by not including MPW as a fundamental part of its
>operating system. Entirely too much time was spent hiding the internals of
>the Macintosh from "the rest of us." A whole legion of users thinks that
>there is no "DOS" command line interpreter for the Mac. False. It's just
>that Apple tries to keep it a secret. You really can send an AppleEvent to
>Finder and tell it to quit. It will oblige, releasing its memory, while you
>run the entire OS from MPW.
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However, if you do quit the Finder, you lose the "Apple Menu" items.
Evidently the "Apple Menu" (except for your about item, and anything
else *the current program* puts in there) is run by the Finder, so
no DAs/Control Panels/etc. :-(.


Tom Kimpton
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