On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Eric L. Strobel wrote:
> on 1/1/04 3:33 AM, chuck goolsbee at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >>> I use a great control panel named Okey Dokey Pro on my servers. You set a
> >>> time (I set it to 30 seconds), and it hits the default button of any dialog
> >>> box on the screen.
> >>
> >> I used to use that, then one time I saw an alert box that had the default
> >> option of "format hard drive?"
> >> I don't use it anymore.
>
> There was once a gag INIT that would put up something like that. Sort of
> like the one that put up a dialog and then had the only button (OK) tear off
> and run around the screen -- kinda like when you try to push the north poles
> of two magnets together. Every time you got the mouse close, the OK button
> would slide away. (As I recall, if you gave up and just clicked where the
> OK button started from, the spot was still sensitive and the dialog would go
> away...) Anyway, for a while (years back) these sort of practical jokes were
> running thru the Mac community. I'd believe this was one of those cases.
> After all, every HD utility I've ever seen has the default be NOT doing
> something.
>
> - Eric.
There were actually two books devoted to those practical jokes. "Stupid
Mac Tricks" I and II. The INIT you are thinking of popped up a dialog that
said somehting like "Format Hard Drive?" with an "OK" and a
"Cancel" button. If you tried to click 'Cancel', the button would run from
the mouse. If you clicked "OK" the dialog would dismiss.
Tom
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