Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!news.miami.edu!umiami!dweisman From: dweisman@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Ordinary Man) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: All about sys 7.0 Message-ID: <1991Apr15.125217.8985@umiami.ir.miami.edu> Date: 15 Apr 91 16:52:16 GMT References: <91087.123233EHYOUNK@MTUS5.BITNET> <1991Apr2.024426.28729@isc.rit.edu> <1991Apr13.014000.29394@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Organization: Univ of Miami IR Lines: 36 In article <1991Apr13.014000.29394@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes: > For example, open up a terminal program, such as ZTerm. Then start sending > a big file. Next, open a DA. The terminal will stop sending. In fact, even > by selecting a menu or the title bar of a window you will freeze the terminal > sending process. This is not good. OK, you get a few points for this but not full credit :). It *is* true that pulling AND HOLDING down a menu while downloading will pause your send/receieve *BUT* if the modem started sending a 1K block before you pulled down the menu it will continue to send WHILE YOU HOLD IT DOWN. It will then stop when it finishes the block and you're stilling holding the menu down. Since most people don't need to hold a menu down for any length of time, and the chances of pulling one down right before the next block is sent is usually rare but does happen, you can download a file in the background and work on somthing else without slowing down the download in the least bit. I've done this...I know. This also applies to ANY action that freezes background processing like dragging a window. Let go of the window/menu, and the download starts right up again. > I anxiously await to see System 7. I only hope it will run on my > computer...otherwise I will have to stay with 6.05. Well, if you have 2 Megs and a Plus or higher and a hard drive it will run, and you will like it, really, you will. :-D Dan -- /-------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Dan Weisman - University of Miami - Florida | || || || || | |--------------------------------------------------| || || ||\ /|| | | INTERNET -----> dweisman@umiami.IR.Miami.edu | || || || | || | | BITNET -----> dweisman@umiami | ||||||| || | || | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "The more I get to see, the less I understand..." - Triumph | \_________________________________________________________________________/