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From: ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Save/Discard/Cancel
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.182201.741@sics.se>
Date: 28 Nov 90 18:22:01 GMT
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>Apple, in the shipping version of Inside Mac Vol 6, please change this to:
> 
> ---
> +-+
> | |
> +-+    Save changes to file "foo" before closing?
>        ((   Save   ))
>         (Don't Save)           (Cancel)
>

  I also think this is better than the "Discard"-version, but for another
reason: English is not my native language. It tooked me about one month to
learn that "Cancel" means "Avbryt", but I still (after 2 year?) have a lot of
problems with the "Discard"-button.

  For foreign users it would be much easier with a simple negation of a
wellknown verb e.g. "Don't Save" 

   /Olle