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From: jdm@gryphon.CTS.COM (John Mesiavech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some ideas for KS/WB 1.3
Message-ID: <2293@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 28 Jan 88 06:21:30 GMT
References: <8801251900.AA00551@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <2512@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: jdm@gryphon.CTS.COM (John Mesiavech)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Summary:An idea for easier use of the system
Keywords:Keywords??  Whazzat??


    An idea to make life easier for novice users of the system....
 
     Include an AUTOFORMAT flag in the OS.  When this flag is set to 1,
have the system automatically format the disk, if the Disk-Validator marks
the disk as BAD.  Possibly better, would be a system requester saying
"Disk in drive dfx: is BAD...format?" with the usual OK/Cancel gadget..
OK in this case meaning "yes, format the disk" and Cancel meaning "NO, do
NOT format".  This would make life a lot easier and faster for newer users,
all they'd have to do would be to insert a blank disk and the system would
automatically format it, or format it after the user clicks OK.

     This would be Preferences-selectable, of course, and really wouldn't 
add that much to the OS, since all it would have to do is wait around for
a DISKCHANGE signal, wait for Disk-Validator to do it's thing, then pop a 
requester according to the signal returned.  If the requester gets popped,
then upon the OK click just Execute() the FORMAT command.  Most of the code
is already IN the Workbench...just a matter of tying it together.
 
     Related ideas:  An EXPERT gadget in Preferences, that if it was clicked
ON, would cause the system to never come up in Workbench, always in CLI.
(Yes, yes, I know...just delete LoadWB from startup-sequence...remember, we're
talking novices here)  This would allow for handier use of the system..after all, it's for things like this that Preferences was designed FOR, no?
The above could be implemented by having TWO startup-sequences..and either a 
bit of renaming, OR having the system look for the appropriate one after
loading system-configuration..
 
Anyway, just some ideas, dust in the wind...Thought I'd toss 'em out, and
see if anyone sneezed....8->
 
John


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