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From: nathan@reed.UUCP (Nathan Wilson)
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Subject: Re: A Finder Suggestion
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Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 17:17:23 EDT
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> >I suggest that dragging the system disk to the trash
> >should cause a shutdown and reset.
> >The only objection to this is that it would cause other
> >disks to be ejected even though they were not explicitly
> >selected.  I can live with this.
> 
> I can't!  Apple, please don't do this...
> 
> A shutdown does a lot of drastic things and does them in an irreversible
> way.  Suppose that I have a couple of newly created files in a RAM-disk.

The other possiblity would be to make the Mac look around for the next
most available system and finder and switch over to them.  If one isn't
around it could post the "You can't do that" alert or a "This will
cause a shuttdown." with an Ok and Cancel button (please with the
Ok the default).  I know this is possible because you can switch to a
different system and finder by double clicking the new finder while
holding down the option and flower keys.  If fact it would be nice if
there was an actual 'make this disk the startup' function rather that
requiring that a person go snooping into the depths on their system
folders to find the finder icon.  The nice thing about this solution is
that it leaves any RAM disk untouched but no longer the startup disk
so you can replace the system and finder on it and other such joys
without changing the disk that the RAM disk was created from.

		-Nathan Wilson
"I don't know what you want, but I will try to help you if I have
to go to the east of east and fight the wild wereworms in the last
desert."