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From: emb90619@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Eric M Berdahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Gatekeeper Problems!!! (binhex/Stuffit/Packit)
Keywords: error bug dunno help
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Date: 17 Mar 89 15:54:05 GMT
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In article <7492@boulder.Colorado.EDU> fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard) writes:
>[deleted previous quote]
>
>Let's not insult people on this net. Remember the Mac is the first popular
>computer to recognize that users do not always want or have time to read
>manuals.  Thus the phrase "pilot error" should be changed to "non-intuitive
>interface".  

Here here and 'nuff said.

>[deleted stuff about when dox should be consulted]
>to the point, GateKeeper should have put up a message saying something like
>"Operation XXX being attempted - not allowed" (as does Vaccine), and StuffIt
>should error-check crucial operations and respond with "Operation XXX
>failed".  

Exactly!  In fact, GateKeeper 1.1 does do just that if you tell it to (by
choosing the correct radio button in the control panel).  StuffIt on the other
hand, well... maybe in the next release.  In fact, GK 1.1 is much improved
over the original.  Of course, one still needs to read dox to find the (AS
the author puts it) "programs from hell".
Eric M. Berdahl
PsiWare Software not inc.
emb90619@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu