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OCR: Shutdown Controller 1997 Roberto Panetta The only request is to use applications able to quit themselves when they know their work is finished For example you can launch backup program, or communication program, which takes an undetermined period, also with some time idling to do its work Shutdown Controller will wait silently in the background, and when all the apps are quitted it will shutdown the computer On the contrary if you select shutdown from the finder it will try to shutdown immediately and all the running applications will quit as soon as they can, thinking the user wants to shutdown immediately. Another use is possible for servers, which need shutdown every evening. You can use the clock time option to shutdown the Mac, it will eventually wait the program which is in charge to ...