Mac OS X Panther in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Name

Classic

Synopsis

Launch Classic?

System Preferences→Classic→Start/Stop→click on the Start button

Finder→Macintosh HD→System→Library→CoreServices→double-click on the Classic Startup item

Quit Classic?

System Preferences→Classic→Start/Stop→click on the Stop button

Restart Classic?

System Preferences→Classic→Start/Stop→click on the Restart button

System Preferences→Classic→Advanced→click on the Restart Classic button

Create a command alias for starting Classic from the command line?

Follow these steps:

1. Launch the Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities).

2. Issue the following command:

                                    $ vi .bash_profile

   This creates the .bash_profile file in your Home directory if it doesn’t already exist; if it does, the file will open up using the vi editor.

3. Hit the “i” key to put vi into insert mode.

4. Enter the following:

   alias classic='open -a "Classic Startup.app"'

   This command creates an alias named classic, which uses the open command to launch the Classic Startup application, located in /System/Library/CoreServices.

5. Hit the Escape key (esc); this takes vi out of insert mode and places it in command mode.

6. Enter :wq, and then hit the Return key. The colon (:) tells vi that you’re going to issue a command, the w tells vi to write the changes to the .bash_profile file, and the q tells vi to quit, which places you back on the command line. (The :wq command appears at the bottom of the Terminal window as it is being typed.)

7. Type in exit and hit the Return key to close the Terminal window.

8. Open a new Terminal window ...