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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Requester improvement
Message-ID: <89296.133956UH2@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 23 Oct 89 17:39:56 GMT
References: <1989Oct22.134819.1796@aucs.uucp>
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <1989Oct22.134819.1796@aucs.uucp>, 840445m@aucs.uucp (Alan McKay)
says:
>
>I have a good idea (I think) of something that should be incorporated
>into the next release of the OS.  When the system pops up a requestor
>telling you to "Insert Volume X into any drive", you only have two
>options, "Retry" and "Cancel".  I suggest that a third option ... "Why?"
>should be added to this.  This new option, if chosen, would tell you what
>it is that the system is looking for.  Yesterday I was having trouble with
>Lattice C popping up this requester for some unknown reason.  I sure would
>have liked to have been able to find out what it was looking for.  Is there
>any way to find out?
>--

I haven't thought this out carefully.  Here are some of the reasons the
requestor has popped up:

1.  A name was spelled wrong.
2.  Software needs a volume that is not in a drive at the moment.
3.  Software needs a logical device that should be assigned to some directory.

So, I agree that this requestor could be smarter than just Retry/Cancel.
For example, if the problem is #1 or #3, the user should be able to fix it
from the workbench.

                                  lee