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From: unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu (The Unknown User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: GS/OS peculiarity?
Message-ID: <6692@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Date: 7 Sep 90 22:49:29 GMT
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Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing
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In response to Larry Virden:
<I have run into what I think is either a major misunderstanding of
<terms on my part or a pecularity of the version of GSOS that I am
<running.
<I am using 5.0.2 which, as far as I am aware, is unmodified.
<I boot into the system.disk, and then eject that disk and put another
<disk in its place.  I click on the new disk's icon once, and then do
<an OA-I (to get info).  Of course, the system prompts me to reinsert
<the missing disk.  I decide I want to 'cancel' - one of the options on
<the dialog.  The box clears and then comes up again.  So I insert the
>disk it requests, and, instead of cancelling, the Get Info continues.
>What does cancel mean if not cancel?
>P.S.  The neat thing is that, if I put in the system.disk, click okay,
>I get another box asking for the original disk.  If I click cancel there -
>again, no cancel - got to get that disk in.  Then, if I put in the disk,
>I still get the Icon info box.
	I left in the whole message because I feel it was important
to leave in. [just an explanation to people who wonder why people quote so
much 'unnecessary' stuff.. I'm one of those people most of the time!]

	I don't have any new revelations or anything for you, but I've noticed
the same basic problem you've seen, but sometimes in different situations,
I believe.

	What I've noticed is that in many cases you have to hit cancel
like 4-5 times in situations like that! [It makes me think that I'm telling
the computer "cancel... CANCEL.. YES, CANCEL..  GET ME THE HELL OUT OF HERE!"]

	It's VERY strange that it won't "accept" the cancel the first time,
but it WILL after the 4th or 5th time.
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