> In the earliest versions of MS-DOS, the choices were Anort, Retry, Ignore.
> Later, they added "Fail", and also permitted the OS to only include the
> choices that were relevant.
DOS 3.1 - but visible to the user only since 3.3.
> So, have error messages been getting better or worse? Many MICROS~1
> message now leave out those annoying details, such as WHAT went wrong.
> And the "OK" button is offensive to me.
> "Absolutely everything that you have done since your last system backup
> has been totally and irretrievably corrupted. OK?" No, it is NOT OK! I
> REFUSE to click OK to that!
So you got a quite big collection of WINDOW~1 (I did rename it
back from SHITSTUFF to WINDOWS, but he still insists that the
name uses more than 8 char) boxes standing in your office with
one of these userfriendly (tm MS) messages ?
SCNR
H.
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Received on Fri Apr 16 1999 - 11:45:48 BST