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From: sparker@aero.ARPA (Steve Parker )
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: A Finder Suggestion
Message-ID: <322@aero.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 11:28:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  6 11:28:20 1985
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References: <251@sask.UUCP> <2197@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <1771@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: sparker@aero.UUCP (Chris Warack (5734))
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[ouch]
In article <1771@reed.UUCP> nathan@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).  I know this is possible because you can switch to a
>different system and finder by double clicking the new finder while
>holding down the option and flower keys.  If fact it would be nice if
>there was an actual 'make this disk the startup' function rather that
>requiring that a person go snooping into the depths on their system
>folders to find the finder icon.  The nice thing about this solution is
>that it leaves any RAM disk untouched but no longer the startup disk
>so you can replace the system and finder on it and other such joys
>without changing the disk that the RAM disk was created from.

Why can't