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From: landman@hanami.Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman x61391)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What I'd like to see in the AppleShare of the 90's
Message-ID: <130578@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 23 Jan 90 09:04:40 GMT
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>gjb@cs.brown.edu (Greg Brail) writes:
>>Currently, if the AppleShare connection is lost because the network
>>is unplugged or the server crashes, a dialog box appears saying you
>>lost the connection to the server, the server is disconnected and
>>your program crashes. If AppleShare instead put up a dialog box
>>saying "The server has been disconnected" and then waited until it
>>could reconnect, no one would lose their work.

In article <25862@cup.portal.com> MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi) writes:
>You have *got* to be kidding. You mean that if my network connection
>goes down (for whatever reason) while I have a server mounted, you
>*want* the Mac to lock up? You would deem this a feature?!
> 
>No, you must be kidding.

If you weren't so used to stupid modal dialogs that lock up the machine,
you might see that there is an alternative.  Of course, it would help to
have real multitasking.

	Howard A. Landman
	landman@eng.sun.com -or- sun!landman