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Article #365Re: Dream OS
From: Benjamin W. Pearre
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 18:45
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 18:45
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Mac (jbmiller@mtholyoke.edu) wrote:
: > 2. To eject a floppy (no eject button, keeeeripes), you have to drag it to
: > the
: > trash. EVERYONE I ever explained that too has looked at me like I plaintively
: > and said "But won't that erase everything on the disk?". Also, chosing the
: > more logical "Eject Disk" option in the Special menu results in an evil ghost
: > disk from hell on your desktop.
: I've never had a problem with that. Actually, the "Eject Disk" option is
: one way of ejecting the disk. Dragging to the trash is another. Now
: lemme see here. If I am removing a disk, perhaps I may be read to put it
: away? Then we can also select the "Put Away" option from under the file
: menu, which ejects the disk without creating what you call an "evil ghost
: disk from hell" on your desktop.
Caching filesystems are a great reason to have a software disk-eject.
I run Linux, and it is really annoying to see people just manually
eject a disk before the cache has flushed. That is one good place for
software eject: it would ensure that the filesystem was properly
flushed and unmounted before allowing the disk to come out. But GIVE
ME A MANUAL EJECT BUTTON for when the power is off or other errors.
Perhaps have it blocked and only a paperclip one available when a disk
is mounted, but make it available in case something goes wrong.
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--- Ben Pearre --- Princeton University Computer Science ---
www = http://albatross.princeton.edu/~me
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!flagstaff.princeton.edu!bwpearre From: bwpearre@flagstaff.princeton.edu (Benjamin W. Pearre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy Subject: Re: Dream OS Date: 2 Aug 1995 18:45:34 GMT Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <3voh4e$97j@cnn.Princeton.EDU> References: <3uhptl$1jdt@thebes.waikato.ac.nz>,<3v6kj3$q1l@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <DCCzBA.Lu8@blaze.trentu.ca> <3vfsun$1rj@mudraker.mtholyoke.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: flagstaff.princeton.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]