Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!atronx!rwm
From: rwm@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca (Russell McOrmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Y.A.A.G. (Yet Another Amiga Gripe)
Message-ID: <60092.666284269@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca>
Date: Mon Feb 11 08:57:49 1991
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
In-Reply-To: skwood@acsu.buffalo.edu (Scott K Wood)

In a message posted on 9 Feb 91 02:03:56 GMT,
skwood@acsu.buffalo.edu (Scott K Wood) wrote:
SKW>to Cancel or Retry.  Here's the gripe : EVEN IF YOU PRESS CANCEL, Why does
SKW>the OS insist on continuing the operation, nearly always resulting in

This is not the OS, but the program that is doing the writing - As a programmer,
you should always check the error status of a write() call, but as most
programmers are lazy, they do not do this. 

  Again, as with the "status of 2.0 for <A3000 machines" the fault is with the
application programmers, not Commodore.

---
  Opinions expressed in this message are my Own. I represent nobody else.
  Russell McOrmond   rwm@Atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca   {tigris,alzabo,...}!atronx!rwm 
  FidoNet 1:163/109  Net Support: (613) 230-2282
  Amiga-Fidonet Support  1:1/109       Gateway for .Amiga.OCUnix.On.Ca