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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
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- Subject: Re: What NEW Amigas SHOULD have
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 96 11:43:56
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- John Severinsen (jsev@midland.co.nz) wrote:
- : Part of OS2 and above is a little flag which can turn off the drive clicking
- : (utilities such as NoClick change the flag). Surely all AT needs to do, is to
- : have that set as standard...
-
- It was set as a flag in the first place, rather than fixed at "no click",
- because several types of floppy drive do not operate correctly if the clicking
- is turned off. It would be okay to add configuration of the flag to one of the
- standard SYS:Prefs programs, but it really shouldn't be set to "no click" by
- default. The same goes for any user-alterable settings - make the default
- something which works on _all_ machines, and allow the user to change to
- something else if his setup supports it.
-
- -- Mat.
-