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From: hjelmflt@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Eric Hjelmfelt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Easiest way to hang a Mac...
Summary: press command period
Keywords: crash, eject
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.225657.11084@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 91 22:56:57 GMT
References: <3845.27e5efa2@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
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In article <3845.27e5efa2@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> tletski@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:
>What's the easiest way to hang a Mac?  Drag the icon of a disk that has been
>ejected into the trash and ... not have the disk!  
>
>Paul Tlestki

There is available an easy solution:

	press      Command-period

and it will cancel that activity and give you control of the machine
back.

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