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- From: jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong)
- Subject: Re: The Apple II Now and Forever
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- Organization: Rice University
- References: <bazyar.724391662@teal> <BzAEK6.Lpt@rice.edu> <SKNKWRKS.92Dec15125921@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:55:58 GMT
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- In article <SKNKWRKS.92Dec15125921@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu> sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
- >
- >...but you can't even switch to another app when the foreground
- >process is in a modal dialog--and this is with System 7, no less. (I
- >was reading in some files with Apple File Exchange and wanted to fire
- >up a word processor to start messing with the files...no dice, at
- >least not while the file translation is in progress.
- >
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- You can switch applications when a "moveable modal dialog", a construct
- that is kind of, but not really, new to system 7.
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- (Well, I don't think you can with Microsoft Word, but that's Microsoft's
- problem...)
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- --
- Jim Wong (jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu)
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