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“READ ME” for Hermit, version 1.0
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Copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.
March 26, 1992
Font: Geneva 12
This document must go wherever Hermit goes. Please do not distribute
Hermit without this documentation. Please do not modify this document.
REGISTERING HERMIT AND THE 7.0 PLUS UTILITIES
============================================
Hermit is not free. Sites using this software MUST register it by
sending a few dollars to the author. Or you can consider the following.
7.0 PLUS Utilities is a package of all (more than 25) System 7.0 utilities
I have written. You can get the disk with all of them NOW (not wait until
I decide to upload the next program) by sending $29.95 to me. This will
register you for all the software, will get you a disk of the software, and
an update to the PLUS Utilities when it rolls around. It’s a pretty good
deal. You should register your software, anyway, so why not do it
like this? And it’s a lot cheaper this way.
See the documentation which should accompany this file for more information
on the 7.0 PLUS Utilities. A registration form should also accompany this file.
Please use it to register the software.
USING HERMIT
====================
• If you use Hermit, please please please send me a note. My addresses
(post and e-mail) are given below in “About the Author”. Also, read the
information in the above section on registration.
What Does Hermit Do?
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• Hermit, a drag-and-drop utility (Drop Rob-Box), is a method of launching
applications while quitting from the Finder (like the old Finder used to
do without MultiFinder). You can launch multiple files or select single
applications through a get file dialog. Quitting the Finder saves memory,
important in certain circumstances.
Using Hermit
------------
• Drag sets of applications over the Hermit icon, “Drop Box-style”.
Hermit will quit the Finder, launch the selected applications, and then
will quit itself. Drop Rob-Boxes require Apple Events, and thus System 7.0
or higher.
• If you drop an alias directly into Hermit the alias will be resolved
automatically.
• Double-click on the Hermit application to select a single program to
launch through the get file dialog.
• Click on the Hermit logo for more information about the program.
Quitting from the Finder
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• In System 7.0 and higher, the Finder is a process, just like any other open
application. Right now, TeachText (or whatever you are using now to
read this document) is probably a process. And just like any other
process, you can Quit the Finder. And, just as you will bring up the
next-to-front process when you quit this program, quitting from the
Finder will bring up the next-to-front process. If no other process is
running, the Finder will quit, and, since it can quit to nothing else, it is
re-launched by the System.
• Like quitting from any other program, quitting from the Finder frees
the memory it occupied.
• The main drawback of quitting from the Finder is that, since the Finder
controls the Apple menu, quitting from the Finder will cause you to
lose your Apple menu. Only the apple and the About menu item will
remain. You can get it back by reloading the Finder.
• To get the Finder running again, you must quit from all other
applications. The System opens the Finder by default when there are no
other processes to activate.
OTHER SIMILAR PROGRAMS
------------------------
Look for Pink Slip, which lets you add a Quit menu item to the Finder, and
Pink Slip FKEY, which lets you quit or re-launch the Finder through a single
command-shift-number sequence.
USING DROP BOXES
=================
Drop Boxes are applications (drag-and-drop utilities) which can take advantage
of System 7.0’s Apple Events. To use them, just drag a file over the application
icon just as you would drag a file over a folder to move it into that directory.
The Drop Box is then opened and processing is done. The program then quits.
Any aliases dropped directly into a Drop Box (not inside a directory) are resolved
by the Finder and thus their target (parent) is used.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
==================
If you use this program, have any comments or suggestions, or ideas for
other programs, please write me a note, e-mail or post.
Robert Gibson E-Mail:
RR#1 Carrying Place CIS: 71261,2236
Ontario, CANADA Internet: 71261.2236@compuserve.com
KØK 1LØ
This program is not to be included in any software collections other than
BBSs and on-line services (e.g. CD ROMs, PD Disks, etc.) without prior
written consent from the author. Any distribution MUST MUST MUST
include this document, unmodified.
Hermit copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.