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Article #10284Re: What I'd like to see in the AppleShare of the 90's
From: Howard A. Landman x61391
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1990 09:04
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1990 09:04
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>gjb@cs.brown.edu (Greg Brail) writes: >>Currently, if the AppleShare connection is lost because the network >>is unplugged or the server crashes, a dialog box appears saying you >>lost the connection to the server, the server is disconnected and >>your program crashes. If AppleShare instead put up a dialog box >>saying "The server has been disconnected" and then waited until it >>could reconnect, no one would lose their work. In article <25862@cup.portal.com> MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi) writes: >You have *got* to be kidding. You mean that if my network connection >goes down (for whatever reason) while I have a server mounted, you >*want* the Mac to lock up? You would deem this a feature?! > >No, you must be kidding. If you weren't so used to stupid modal dialogs that lock up the machine, you might see that there is an alternative. Of course, it would help to have real multitasking. Howard A. Landman landman@eng.sun.com -or- sun!landman
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!hanami!landman From: landman@hanami.Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman x61391) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What I'd like to see in the AppleShare of the 90's Message-ID: <130578@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 23 Jan 90 09:04:40 GMT References: <25184@brunix.UUCP> <25862@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman x61391) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 21