shinberd@unioncs.UUCP (David Shinberg) (03/31/88)
While working in MS Word 3.01 I came across a very interesting, but very harmless bug. I got a little confused when saving a file and Word asked me to inserted Disk X into the drive. Not knowing where Disk X was and being to lazy to search for it (through the clutter on my desk) I hit CMD-Period, to dismiss the dialiog box. Fine it disapared just as expected. Then I wanted to save the file on Disk Y. Knowing this I inserted Disk Y into the drive and then went to do a Save As. A dialog box appeared asking me to insert Disk Y. But since Disk Y was already in the drive Word just went on to save the file. However It NEVER disposed of the dialog box requesting Disk Y. The interesting thing is that after the save everything seemed to function normally except that part of my document was covered with a dialog box. BTW: I wasing using a MacII with MF, but I don't think MF is the entire cause of the problem. It seems that Word or the operating system wanted a disk inserted event before it would dispose of the dialog box. Sorry if this was a bit confussing, but it seemed interesting to me. Dave S |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | Disclaimer: Don't blame me ... I'm too new at this | | | | David Shinberg BITNET: 88_shinb@union | | Box 2073 UUCP: uunet!steinmetz!unioncs!shinberd | | Union College | | Schenectady NY, 12308 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
her3@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Benjamin 'Drew' Herman) (04/01/88)
In article <619@unioncs.UUCP> shinberd@unioncs.UUCP (David Shinberg) writes: >While working in MS Word 3.01 I came across a very interesting, but very >harmless bug. >CMD-Period, to dismiss the dialiog box [to insert the disk]. >Fine it disapared just as expected. I'm working on a MAC PLUS and I tried the aformentioned CMD-Period.... OUCHHHHH!!!!.... this puppy did bad thiings to my disks. let me explain I had a disk in the external drive. and was swapping disks in the internal (oh to have a hard disk :*) ) anyway I made a similar mistake as Dave. the computer asked for a disk that I had no Idea were was. being desperate not to loose all my work I hit CMD-. and lo-and-behold the dialog box went away to be replaced by insert startup disk...... and as I was thanking GOD It ejected my startup disk and asked me to reinsert it. to make a long story... My startup disk and the disk in the external drive were unreadable...unmountableNeedless to say I no longer do anything desperate when something happens. Ben Herman her3@sphinx.uchicago.edu -- Internet: her3@sphinx.uchicago.edu BITNET: her3@sphinx.uchicago.bitnet UUCP: {ihnp4!gargoyle,oddjob}!sphinx!her3