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From: frankk@mcvax.UUCP (Frank Kuiper)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: A Finder Suggestion
Message-ID: <787@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 08:26:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 08:26:58 1985
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Reply-To: frankk@mcvax.UUCP (Frank Kuiper)
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In article <1771@reed.UUCP> (Nathan Wilson) writes:
	>> >I suggest that dragging the system disk to the trash
	>> >should cause a shutdown and reset.
	>> >The only objection to this is that it would cause other
	>> >disks to be ejected even though they were not explicitly
	>> >selected.  I can live with this.
	 
	>> I can't!  Apple, please don't do this...
	>> 
	>> A shutdown does a lot of drastic things and does them in an irreversible
	>> way.  Suppose that I have a couple of newly created files in a RAM-disk.
	
	>The other possiblity would be to make the Mac look around for the next
	>most available system and finder and switch over to them.  If one isn't
	>around it could post the "You can't do that" alert or a "This will
	>cause a shuttdown." with an Ok and Cancel button (please with the
	>Ok the default).

To my view, all what dragging the startup disk to the trash should do is
just eject the disk! I don't want any complex things to happen. If you
want another disk to become your new startup disk, why not make a Desk
Accessary which could do the job. It could do more fancy things as well, like
a shutdown and ejecting all disks.

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               Frank
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