Switcher.Doc

Switcher 2.0 9 April 1985 Hardware Requirements Switcher requires a 512K Macintosh or Macintosh XL. It's usefulness increases with an external disk drive. Switcher may also be used in conjunction with third-party hard disks. About This Document This is a preliminary draft of the manual. It will undergo extensive reorganization. Please send me your comments on content. What's not here? What do you need to know? What don't you understand? What have you discovered about Switcher and want to pass on? What are some neat things to do with Switcher? (I'm especially interested in CompuServe users' comments.) Please send your comments to: Pam Stanton-Wyman Macintosh User Education Apple Computer 20525 Mariani Avenue MS 2-U Cupertino, CA 95014 Bug & Problem Reports should be left on Compuserve's MAUG in Section 4. Please address to Dan Cochran (76004,116) or Andy Hertzfeld (70167,3430). You may also mail bug reports to: Ron Brannan Apple Computer, Inc. MS 2-O 20525 Mariani Avenue Cupertino, CA 95014 How to Use Switcher Switcher 2.0 Alpha Draft April 9, 1985 1 Before you start, you may wish to copy applications you'll be using to the Switcher disk or to a non startup disk you'll put in the external disk drive. Depending on the application, you may also want your documents available on one of the two disks. Starting Switcher Start Switcher like any other application: double-click the Switcher icon or choose Open from the File menu. You'll see the Switcher window: Installing Applications The first thing to do after you start Switcher is to designate which applications you want to use. You can load all the applications at once, or load one, start working, and load others later. To start an application, double click one of the Switcher slots. All applications on the disk with which you started Switcher will appear. You can click the Drive or Eject buttons to get applications on another disk. Select the application you wish to install and click Open. Switcher will start the specified application then return you to the Switcher . You can now install another application or use the Switching arrow to move to the application you've started. If you want to install additional applications while you're using Switcher, you must first return to the Switcher window. From within an application, look at the Apple Menu; you'll notice a new command at the bottom, Switcher 2.0 Alpha Draft April 9, 1985 2 Switcher. Choose Switcher and you'll return to the Switcher window. Depending on how much memory is available, you can now select another application to install. Up to three applications may be installed using Switcher's preset options. You can install as many as four applications using 128K memory each, and a maximum of eight applications using less than 128K memory. To install more than three requires some memory conservation tricks and probably a hard disk to hold all the ap…