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Re: open file

Subject: Re: open file
From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:00:53 -0600

On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 03:30 PM, Alex Reynolds wrote:

I don't want to spark a flame war, but why would wanting to know how to do this be a bad thing?

The ability to determine whether a file is in use was strange to some participants, who decided it was therefore unmanly; they argued that it would be better to punish users with data loss repeatedly until they learned not to attempt multitasking on files.

Others suggested the reason one buys a Macintosh in the first place is to avoid being beaten into making the software work properly.

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