RE: New TECHWR-L Poll Question

[KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spreadbury, David C. [mailto:David -dot- Spreadbury -at- marconi -dot- com]
[snippety]
> I know that if I was configuring a large switch network, with several
> hundred or possibly thousands of connections, that a WARNING, 
> early on, to
> frequently save the configuration file (<save cfg>?) to eliminate the
> possible need to do it all over again because I made one 
> little misstep
> (totally hypothetical situation). This misstep may not do any physical
> damage to me or the equipment, but it might cause me to want 
> to go looking
> for the writer who didn't warn me about such a possibility. 
> What does it
> cost to make a procedure user friendly? A simple one sentence 
> entry that
> could possibly save me hours of rework? Cheap price if you 
> are the one that
> took that misstep.

That's true enough, but this IS a demonstration (even if it's 
all in your head... :-) of documentation being used to cover 
for poor design.  What somebody SHOULD have done is to 
include a little pop-up in the program:

  "It's been 'X' amount of time, or 'Y' changes to the database
   since we last saved your work. 
   Can we please save this now, in case something bad happens?
    
      [ Save and Continue ]   [ No, I'll live dangerously ]"

/kevin

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