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- From: The_Big_Red_One@msn.com (John McGinley)
- Subject: Re: AmigaOS 4.x features
- Date: 8 Mar 96 09:17:28 -0800
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- >On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Jolyon Ralph wrote:
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- >> My pet hate of the AmigaOS has always been the 'Disk xxx has a read/write
- >> error - Retry/ Cancel' problem, where however many times you thump the
- >> cancel button it goes on merrily retrying... That's been there since, oh.
- >> 1.2 at least...
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- > I concur here! In all this time, isn't there a patch that will intercept
- >the insane read/write cancel error and let you out?
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- >Don't be silly, it is not the OS, it is the software that is ignoring the
- >disk-error that the os is reporting to it and continuing to try to read or
- >write to the disk. The requester simply intercepts the error prior to
- >reporting the error to the program and having had some marginal floppies and
- >one marginal hard-drive, believe me, I am glad it was around.
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- >Patrick Sheffield
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- Maybe a RETRY/IGNORE/ABORT buttons ,wouldn't that be nice?
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- Built in Network support should be in there with maybe WINDOWS
- NETWORK and APPLETALK Network compatibility.
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- My 2 cents for what it's worth...
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- -JM
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