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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 15 Mar 91 22:49:12 GMT
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In article <12014@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>In article <> trotter@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Russell T. Trotter) writes:
>>I agree being forced to insert a disk with no cancel box is a
>>bit inconveinent....maybe more in your case but anyway..just for 
>>future reference you can "cancel" that dialog by typing
>>Command - period , or hold the open apple button down and press
>>the "."   
>
>Of course.  How intuitively obvious.  <sarcasm, folks>
>
>You know, there are many instances in the Mac operating system where potentially
>useful features of the computer are obscurely hidden behind this sort of stuff.

Command-. documented in the manuals, and is given in many circumstances in 
which length procedures are taking place.  Anyone who has canceled a print job
on a Mac knows that.  The messages stares you in the face as you print.

>For reference -- how do you save the current Mac screen to disk?  Where on the
>disk would that file exist?  etc. etc.

Command-shift-3 to dump the screen to disk.  Command-shift-4 to print the 
current window to an ImageWriter.  These commands are on the command reference
card that comes with the Mac.  OK, so they fudged when they said you don't
have to RTFM.  (The screen dump goes to the root level of the disk with the 
currently active System, I think.) 

>Hasn't anyone ever seen that ESC key?  What do people suppose it might be
>useful for?  Geez people, it's part of the Motif spec too...

Terminal emulation, of course.