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From: Jim.Spencer@p510.f22.n282.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Spencer)
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Subject: Re: All about sys 7.0 <long>
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Date: 31 Mar 91 15:53:24 GMT
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Steve Dorner writes in a message to All

In article <1991Mar28.163655.6496@fwi.uva.nl> freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk) writes: >that this won't be the case in REAL applications, which probably won't >call Get/WaitNextEvent during lenghty operations).
SD>  My application does; I like to think it's "REAL". I even allow 
SD> switches practically all the time. 

Yea, it strikes me as pretty unfriendly for a programmer to start a long process without checking every so often to see if the user wants to bail out and this check is all that is necessary to give to time to other tasks.