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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What I'd like to see in 1.4
Message-ID: <72813UH2@PSUVM>
Date: 22 Feb 89 15:11:36 GMT
References: <1984@daimi.dk> <10196@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <10204@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Penn State Erie, Behrend College
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In article <10204@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, carlson@betelgeuse (Richard L. Carlson) says:
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>Actually, what I would like to see is a *third* option in the system
>requester, between the other two, labeled "Why".  That way, the regular
>system requester would have the same text (and not be cluttered), but
>if you wanted to find out exactly what was being looked for, "Why" would
>give you that extra information.
>

Something like this has been suggested before, and I like it.  I think that
choosing WHY could do more than just print an error message.  Maybe
volume XXX wasn't found because the user forgot to make an assign.
The window that WHY pops up could be a file requestor type window with
the capability of looking around through disks til the user finds
the one he wants, and then saying "that's the one", making the
assign, etc.