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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title> AutQuit7 </title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <link rel="canonical" href="index.html"> </head> <body> <div> <i> <a href="https://www.gryphel.com/index.html">www.gryphel.com</a>/c/<a href="../../index.html">minivmac</a>/<a href="../index.html">extras</a>/autquit7 - <a href="https://www.gryphel.com/c/feedback.html">feedback</a> </i> </div> <hr> <h2 align=center> AutQuit7 </h2> <hr> <p> Download </p> <blockquote> <p> <a href="https://www.gryphel.com/d/minivmac/extras/autquit7/autquit7-1.4.1.zip">autquit7-1.4.1.zip</a> (53K) a zipped hfs disk image and checksum file. The disk image can be mounted with Mini vMac. Includes source code. </p> </blockquote> <p> AutQuit7 assists in &ldquo;wrapping&rdquo; an application for the Mac Plus that requires System 7.0 or later, so that you can use it with Mini vMac more as you would a native application for your machine. For applications that can run in System 6 or earlier, &ldquo;<a href="../autoquit/index.html">AutoQuit</a>&rdquo; may be preferred. </p> <p> To use AutQuit7, copy the application to a new folder on your System 7 disk. Then make an alias of the application and move the alias to the &ldquo;Startup Items&rdquo; folder within the &ldquo;System Folder&rdquo;. Do not place the AutQuit7 application directly in the &ldquo;Startup Items&rdquo; folder, because items in the same folder as AutQuit7 modify its behavior, and you don&rsquo;t want to mix up these items with the &ldquo;Startup Items&rdquo;. </p> <p> In the simplest case of using AutQuit7, when there are no other items in the folder containing it, then (after the next restart) Mini vMac will automatically quit when you shut down the emulated machine. The way it works is that AutQuit7 is a background only application, and on shut down the system tells all background applications to quit. At this time AutQuit7 sets a flag within Mini vMac, which causes Mini vMac to quit when the last disk is ejected. (This flag isn&rsquo;t just always set, because it is possible to eject all disks even when not shutting down.) This behavior is basically the same as using &ldquo;<a href="../ejctquit/index.html">EjctQuit</a>&rdquo;, but doesn&rsquo;t require System 7.5. (It requires System 7 or later.) Like EjctQuit, AutQuit7 will not quit Mini vMac if the shift key is down. </p> <p> If you make an alias of an application, and place the alias in the same folder as AutQuit7, and then rename the alias to &ldquo;app&rdquo;, then AutQuit7 will launch the application at startup. Furthermore, when this application quits, the system notifies AutQuit7, and AutQuit7 then tells the system to shut down. (And then, as in the previous case, Mini vMac quits.) </p> <p> If you make an alias of a document, and place the alias in the same folder as AutQuit7, and then rename the alias to &ldquo;doc&rdquo;, then AutQuit7 will tell the application &ldquo;app&rdquo; to open the document at launch. </p> <p> If either &ldquo;app&rdquo; or &ldquo;doc&rdquo; are an alias pointing onto a disk that is not currently mounted, then AutQuit7 will wait up to 15 seconds for the disk to mount. However, the Macintosh system software can mistakenly decide that an already mounted disk is the disk it is looking for, particularly if it has the same creation date as the correct disk. So if you use one of the &ldquo;<a href="../blanks/index.html">Blanks</a>&rdquo; set of pre-made disk images, you may want to erase the disk image before using it (with the &ldquo;Erase Disk...&rdquo; command in the Special menu of the Finder) to make sure it has a unique creation date. </p> <p> If you create a new folder in the same folder as AutQuit7, and rename the new folder to &ldquo;cf&rdquo;, then AutQuit7 will include all the functionality of &ldquo;<a href="../clockfix/index.html">ClockFix</a>&rdquo;. This feature is included because there is some minimum overhead to a background