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kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas) writes:

>Remy Saville <rem@guild.bc.ca> writes:
>
>>When I formated my IBM disk to a mac format the Powermacs froze while that 
>>happened, sure I rarly ever format a disk, but it is nicer to do it on a 
>>OS/2, Win95, or even amiga where you can still work.  Also last at my high 
>
>I  can still work while formatting a disk.  Use a freeware program called 
>Disk Charmer if thats so important to you.

Huh???  You mean even Apple forgot to call WaitNextEvent in their floppy :-)
formatting utility for MacOS?

>>school when printing we had to wait while the slow dot matrix printers 
>>worked away, something that even win3.1 didn't need to do.  I don't know if 
>>the macs were configured wrong or whatever, but that lack of multitasking 
>
>They were configured wrong.  Go into Chooser and select background printing.

I see, the MacOS printing utility has also some problems with
WaitNextEvent when operating in "foreground" :-)

If Apple couldn't get the MacOS utilities to work correctly in their
CMT environment, what could you expect from a beginner programmer?

Dan
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