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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Reordering GS/OS directories
Message-ID: <15006@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 28 Jan 91 20:57:53 GMT
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In article <1991Jan28.093438.21992@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
>Doug, Doug, Doug.  Surely you jest.  It's only good common sense to
>prevent low level block I/O requests to a volume with open files.

No, it's stupid.  It assumes that the programmer does not know what he
is doing.  While this may be true for Macintosh USERS, it should not
be assumed of Apple IIGS PROGRAMMERS.  Our tools have been deliberately
crippled!

There have been other reported actual problems caused by this restriction.