Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!frankk 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 Article-I.D.: mcvax.787 Posted: Wed Aug 7 08:26:58 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 22:34:05 EDT References: <251@sask.UUCP> <2197@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <1771@reed.UUCP> Reply-To: frankk@mcvax.UUCP (Frank Kuiper) Distribution: net Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 31 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. -- Frank ___ Frank Kuiper, CWI, Amsterdam. _][__| | ...{decvax,philabs,seismo,okstate,garfield}!mcvax!frankk <_______|-1 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. O-O-O