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Re: Installers



At 02:43 PM 3/9/96 -0800, you wrote:

>It's not wierd at all.  On my Mac, most of the installers will quit all
>running applications (including the FINDER) before they begin to install. 
>This is true with some versions of Apple Installers and all of the Vice
>Installers.  Somehow any program that will try to quit all other programs
>will not work.

In that case, would it be possible to implement a "program shutdown"
spoofing of some sort? I know this may be a crazy idea but if it works
that would be great!

>Steve
>
>BTW If you wondering what the Finder is... "This file, along with the
>System file, provides the information your Macintosh needs to operate." 
>from Apple's balloon help It's what the Browser tries to imitate. 
>MS-DOSish, it's like the COMMAND.COM and the System is like the MSDOS.SYS
>and IO.SYS.

Regards,

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