TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: nthelp
to: Geo
from: Robert Comer
date: 2006-04-29 21:08:58
subject: Re: Do I really want this?

From: "Robert Comer" 

I agree actually, I was just suggesting that there could be a way around it
in this particular case and I gotta wonder why it hasn't been done already.

It's not acceptable to autoreboot, especially with anything but system tasks going.

--
Bob Comer


"Geo"  wrote in message news:44540681$3{at}w3....
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:4453c4b1{at}w3....
>
>> That doesn't mean it can't be done, it just takes a little bit more
>> programming.  I really don't understand why nobody has done it yet. (for
> the
>> big apps anyway)
>
> It's the wrong fix. I have no problem with programs asking if I want to
> save
> when I end them and that should be enough if only the computer always
> asked
> if I wanted to reboot before it decides to reboot. I find fixes that
> reboot
> without even asking (they just give you a "finish" button)
to be among the
> most annoying of things I've run into on a computer.
>
> Geo.
>
>

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5
* Origin: Barktopia BBS Site http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45)
SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 5030/786
@PATH: 379/45 1 106/2000 633/267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.