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From: peacock@stealth.acf.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Easiest way to hang a Mac...
Message-ID: <16073:Apr100:56:1691@stealth.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 91 00:56:16 GMT
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Reply-To: peacock@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (kenneth peacock)
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In response to the statements:
>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!  Sounds like a dumb thing to
>do, but around here Mac's are community property and as a result this happens
>VERY often.  Mostly this happens when novices are careful, but I thought the
>Mac was supposed to be friendly to novices.  Oh well, does System 7 address
>this issue at all?

A simple solution will be to press command-period.  Sometimes you might
have to hit that several times.  Then the system will not ask you to insert
back the disk.
-David Wu