CompuServe Messages

Mark: Sounds as though someone has tried to over-solve a non-existent problem. I think the problem I had has got to be far more likely than the example you gave. It sounds as though the right thing to do is to ask me… Just as simple requester: "This disk is marked as part of the current backup.. Use it anyway?" Seems like the problem you say has no solution probably has a relatively simple one. In my work we develop relatively large distributed processing systems for data collection and analysis. It is always hard to convince young programmers that in an interactive system you should never make some automated fail-over decision when a user is available to "vote" on the answer. Programmers always like to think their program can make the right decision for the person that is running the program. Not true. If there is any doubt about what to do in a error condition – "ask me"… Steve