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From: lupin3@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (-=/ Larry Hastings /=-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some ideas for KS/WB 1.3
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Date: 28 Jan 88 16:57:31 GMT
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+-In article <2293@gryphon.CTS.COM>, jdm@gryphon.CTS.COM (John Mesiavech) wrote:-
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|      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..
|
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  System requester would be fine; I wouldn't want ANYTHING to auto-format disks;
what if it "thinks" it's a bad disk but it isn't (it's something you're going to
DiskDoctor or something)?  Wouldn't even be too hard for C= to put in; just
wedge it in there good and hard...

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|      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)
	  ^^^^^^^
|
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  Huh?  Make an "EXPERT" mode for "Novices"?  If they can't use CLI enough to
edit their startup-sequence, then they don't deserve to be in CLI all the time.
Wouldn't be good for 'em...
  Anyways, this doesn't have to be in Preferences; you could just write a
program that opens the startup-sequence, reads it, and writes it back with 
everything but the line "LoadWB".  It'd be a snap to write, then you just make
an icon for it and put it on the boot workbench.
  
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| | "I am the Entertainer,              |  John Mesiavech                    |
| |  Another serenader,                 | {anywhere}!cadovax!gryphon!jdm     |
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