Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!unisoft!gethen!farren
From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some ideas for KS/WB 1.3
Message-ID: <644@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 88 21:19:02 GMT
References: <8801251900.AA00551@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <2512@swan.ulowell.edu> <2293@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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In article <2293@gryphon.CTS.COM> jdm@gryphon.CTS.COM (John Mesiavech) writes:
>
>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".

Ala Macintosh, you mean?  This would be an okay idea if, and ONLY if,
the FORMAT command resided in Workbench space, rather than being an
external command.  I already believe this to be a good idea - format,
info, and diskcopy are, currently, the only Workbench standard operations
that require you to re-insert your Workbench disk, if it has been removed,
except for those commands that actually do writes to the Workbench disk
itself, such as snapshot.  I would MUCH prefer to see all of the
Workbench menu commands operate without disk changes, and since the next
release of Workbench supposedly all resides in a library anyhow, why not
just make the library a little bit bigger, for the sake of greatly
improved convenience?

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