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From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: System Requesters
Message-ID: <113@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 15:26:52 GMT
Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA
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Why do some system requesters give the user the option to RETRY or CANCEL
if the system doesn't give the user any choice?  

Specifically, why when I get a write error while writing to a floppy I
get a requester to either RETRY or CANCEL, and even if I choose cancel
it insists on retrying.  And after retrying enough times it crashes
the machine!

Why do you get a choice of retrying or canceling when you get a software
failure?  Has anybody retried and had the system recover for them?  If
so I would really like to know.

It seems to me that if the operating system puts up a requester with
choices, when the user makes a selection, the system should listen
to it.  No ifs, ands, or buts about it.  Otherwise why even give the
user a choice at all.

I really hope this gets fixed in 1.4.
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