On Jul 3, 2008, at 6:04 PM, Brian Stevens wrote:

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> On Jul 3, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Brian Heibert wrote:
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>> How can I  make my application do the following in OS X
>>
>> either
>>
>> Shutdown
>> Restart
>
> One method is to send apple events to the Finder. This methods  
> provides all the correct notifications to other running apps.

BTW: Alain posted code ( with a warning of being lightly tested ) on  
January 25, 2008 showing how to send the appleevent.

Brian S.