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From: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
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Subject: Re: the Ask command
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Date: 8 Jun 90 16:57:33 GMT
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In article <4120@darkstar.ucsc.edu> sirkm@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Greg Anderson) 
writes:
> It would not be difficult to modify my XFCN so that pressing "Cancel"
> returns the string litteral "Cancel" instead of empty.  Of course, you
> then would be unable to distinguish between the user typing "Cancel"
> and hitting "OK" with a normal click on the "Cancel" button, but this
> isn't a terrible handicap.

One could pass the cancel string in the invocation of the XFCN.  Then it 
would be up to the caller to use a string that would be an inappropriate 
answer for the particular question.  A truly paranoid caller might build 
the string from characters that cannot be typed.

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