On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > confirmation before over-writing an existing file. They also "fixed
> Gawd I hated that...having to confirm that YES, I REALLY DO WANT TO DELETE
> THIS FARQING FILE DAMN IT! Eventually I just put a COPYCMD=/Y (or
> something like that) in my CONFIG.SYS file which forced the equivalent of
> a /Y option (effectively, do not confirm) to any command that could
> overwrite/delete files and the problem was solved.
At least there was provision for changing objectionable defaults.
There were some tests done a while back (maybe Don Norman or jef Raskin
might know where to find them) that showed that "Are you sure" produced a
conditioned reflex, and people would confirm before they finished reading
the question.
> Stupid Microsoft.
Not to bash MICROS~1, but don't YOU consider that redundant?
[SMARTDRV]
> I realized early on it was ripe for trouble so I automatically disabled
> it.
Smart Sellam.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Fri Jun 22 2001 - 19:08:32 BST