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From: fstuart@eng.auburn.edu (Frank Stuart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Y.A.A.G. (Yet Another Amiga Gripe)
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Date: 9 Feb 91 03:33:02 GMT
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In article <58782@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> skwood@acsu.buffalo.edu (Scott K Wood) writes:
>
>     All in all, the Amiga is a wonderful machine and I probably wouldn't
>choose another computer.  However, there are always little things
>with any system that are utterly annoying.  The Amiga is no exception.
>     In 1.0-1.3 versions of Workbench (don't know about 2.0), if you wrote
>to a disk with an error, a Read/Write error requester popped up asking you
>to Cancel or Retry.  Here's the gripe : EVEN IF YOU PRESS CANCEL, Why does
>the OS insist on continuing the operation, nearly always resulting in
>ANOTHER Read/Write error requester.  I have tried to copy files from a bad
>disk only to spend 5 minutes pressing Cancel on the Read/Write error
>requesters before FINALLY the system got the hint and stopped the copying
>process.  Why does the system do this?  Also, is this problem fixed in
>the current beta-versions of 2.0?  If not, is it going to be fixed?
>
>          
>                                         Scott
Yes, that is annoying....have you tried using gomf?