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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What I'd like to see in the AppleShare of the 90's
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Date: 13 Jan 90 15:19:47 GMT
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In <25862@cup.portal.com> MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi):
> if my network connection goes down [...] while I have a server mounted,
> you *want* the Mac to lock up? You would deem this a feature?!

	What's the big deal?  Just put a button in the dialog box to abort
the connection, if you prefer not to wait.  Make the hitting the abort
button issue a "are you sure you want to do this?" alert dialog warning the
user that aborting the connection might cause work to get lost.
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