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- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 85 13:18 MST
- From: <@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA:Dave-Platt@LADC>
- Subject: WayStation - another mini-finder
- To: INFO-Mac@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA
- Message-ID: <850828201815.317609@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA>
-
- This posting contains "WayStation", a public-domain minifinder.
-
- WayStation permits you to quickly launch any of up to 24 different applica-
- tions; the applications don't all have to be on the same disk (WayStation
- apparently records the name/disk information in its own data fork). In this
- version, you can only launch applications; launching of documents is promised
- for a future release. WayStation has an automatic one-minute screen-saver
- feature; click the mouse or strike any key to refresh the screen (this feature
- apparently isn't aware of desk accessories such as MockWrite, and tends to
- blank the screen suddenly if you're using such accessories from within
- WayStation).
-
- It's possible to make WayStation your default Finder (useful especially if you
- don't have a ramdisk). To do this cleanly (that is, to be able to get back to
- the standard Apple finder if you need to) you'll need to muck around a bit with
- the file names and attributes. Copy a System and a Finder onto a new disk.
- Select the Finder, and pull down "Duplicate" from the File menu. Rename the
- "Copy of Finder" file "Apple Finder". Toss the Finder in the trash. Copy
- WayStation onto this disk, and change its name to Finder. Use Set File 2.0 (or
- FEDIT) to change the type of the "Apple Finder" file from FNDR to APPL, and
- turn off the System bit. Copy any other applications that you want to use onto
- this new disk. Shut down, and reboot from the new disk. When WayStation opens
- its window, pull down "Add applications" from the File menu (or use command-A).
- Select "Apple Finder" and each of the other applications that you want to be
- able to launch; then Cancel. You can also select applications on other disks;
- they will be dimmed in the WayStation display whenever the disk they're on is
- not in one of the drives.
-
- In order to use WayStation from a ramdisk such as the public domain RamStart
- version, you need to perform some additional fiddling in order to make sure
- that WayStation is aware of the applications on the ramdisk. The following
- explanation assumes that you use RamStart as your startup application, and that
- you have stored RamStart in a folder on your startup disk that also includes
- copies of the System, the Apple finder (renamed & reattributed as suggested
- above), WayStation (named Finder), and any other applications that you want to
- run from your ramdisk.
-
- 1) Boot from your startup disk. RamStart will run, create the ramdisk, copy
- the files from your startup folder, eject the startup disk, and exit to the
- WayStation "Finder" on the ramdisk.
-
- 2) Push the "Other" button in the WayStation menu. When the file selection box
- appears, reinsert the original startup disk; select "Finder" from that disk.
-
- 3) The WayStation "finder" on the ramdisk will transfer control to the
- WayStation "finder" on the startup disk.
-
- 4) Pull down "Add applications" from the File menu (command-A). Push the
- "Drive" button to select the ramdisk. Select from the ramdisk all of the
- applications that you're going to want to run, including the Apple Finder; then
- Cancel. You may also, if you wish, insert one or more applications from other
- disks.
-
- 5) Once all applications have been selected, pull down "Shut down" from the
- Special menu. WayStation will write the complete list of applications out to
- your startup disk, eject the disk, and reboot.
-
- 6) Reinsert the startup disk. RamStart will run, copy your startup folder
- (including the WayStation finder and its list of applications) to the ramdisk,
- eject the startup disk, and exit to WayStation. The WayStation menu will list
- all of the applications that you selected in step (4). You can now launch any
- of them (VERY fast) or exit back to the Apple finder.
-
- [Archived as [SUMEX]<INFO-MAC>UTILITY-WAYSTATION.HQX. --RMA]