Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!rayssd!raybed2!linus!sdl From: sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: VirusX Message-ID: <34000@linus.UUCP> Date: 9 Jun 88 18:43:41 GMT References: <3424@enea.se> Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA Lines: 28 In-reply-to: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 3 Jun 88 21:58:33 GMT In article mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes: > PLEASE! If you write a program whose only purpose is to sit in the background > and does not need to constantly communicate with the user, then it doesn't > need to open a window on the Workbench screen. I have enough windows > fluttering about on my Workbench without "garbage" windows (i.e. those that > don't give me information or allow me to interact with the program owning the > window) getting in the way. Another culprit is Dropshadow. Great program, but I wish I could make the requester window go away once it's set to my liking. The PD program wIconify helps a lot; it shrinks the big annoying window down to a little bitty icon. Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 Fone: (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mitre-bedford.arpa UUCP: ...{cbosgd,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,mit-eddie,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Those who will be able to conquer software will be able to conquer the world." -- Tadahiro Sekimoto, president, NEC Corp.