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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The Great Standard Yes/No/Cancel Alert Contest
Message-ID: <8532@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 15 Sep 89 22:03:56 GMT
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In article <10550@claris.com> peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce) writes:
>For what it's worth, MacApp uses - 
>
>Save changes to "Untitled-1" before closing?

Which is a sentence fragment.  As the guidelines say, "it's better to be
polite than abrupt, even if it means lengthening the message."  Is there
any way for a MacApp developer to override this awful behavior?
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"Skip, witches!  Hop, toads!  Take your pleasure!"
    -- Aleister Crowley, THE BOOK OF LIES