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From: bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: We Can Say "Disk Lost" Now!! (Re: New ROMs)
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 04:09:02 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 20 04:09:02 1986
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> Swapping Disks:
> 	Option-. aborts a "Please insert disk" message.  No
> 	guarantees that the underlying software will understand
> 	this.

     Thank goodness!!!!   The  underlying software  couldn't
have any more trouble with this than it does now!!

     But I  sure  wish Apple  had  followed their  own  user
interface guidelines  and  made  this a  button  instead  of
<Option><.> .  I'd  like  to believe  there's  some  systems
reason why they can't put up a control while they're  asking
for a disk swap,  but suspect instead  that they just  don't
want uninformed users  to do something  which might  confuse
their software.   Sometimes  I wonder  if the  "Option"  key
wasn't the biggest mistake in the whole Mac keyboard  design
-- it's used for  so many different  unobvious things.   For
instance, <flower><.> might have  been more reasonable as an
abort key sequence, if  it had to be  a key sequence,  since
this is analogous  to some  other Mac  and Lisa  things.   I
guess they figured that they finally could do this right (it
should have been this way all along) though...

     At any rate, enough grumping.  Just thank goodness  the
new ROMs  have  this at  all  --  it'll sure  make  MY  life
easier...

				Bart Massey
				..tektronix!reed!bart