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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?
- --------------------
- • 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
- ----------------------
- • 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.