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From: kenney@hsi86.hsi.com (Brian Kenney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: 6.0.7 Idiosyncrasy ?
Message-ID: <2598@hsi86.hsi.com>
Date: 16 Nov 90 13:24:22 GMT
References: <1678@gold.gvg.tek.com> <draphsor.658724837@elaine0.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: kenney@hsi.com (Brian Kenney)
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Organization: 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford, CT
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In article <draphsor.658724837@elaine0.stanford.edu> draphsor@elaine0.stanford.edu (Matt Rollefson) writes:

>desktop file.  It will therefore ask you to insert the disk, which can
>be quite annoying - especially if the disk is no longer available.  (The
>only way out I've found here is rebooting - anyone have any tricks to
>convince the OS to leave well enough alone?)

Yes.  When the dialog box prompts you to insert the old disk, enter
"<open-apple> ." (that's open-apple period).   You may have to do 
this twice, but it should make that dialog box go away.


--bri
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Brian Kenney                                            kenney@hsi.com 
3M Health Information Systems                           Wallingford, CT