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- From: drizzit@eskimo.com (G. Baldwin)
- Subject: Re: AmigaOS 4.x features
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- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 07:14:56 GMT
-
- Jolyon Ralph (jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
- : > 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.
-
- : My point was that Workbench itself is one of those pieces of software
- : that happily ignores the 'cancel' (when dragging an icon to a disk with
- : bad sectors, for example), requiring either millions of mouse clicks or a
- : reset.
-
- : Jolyon
-
- There is a patch out that has a "Deny Forever" button for requestors.
- Believe it or not, AmigaOS had something like this before, but it was
- taken out. Those of you with A3000s who had/have 1.4 in their ROM towers
- might have noticed it...
-
-