Wrong "Application Not Responding" Dialogs When Closing Applications

[Tim]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 23:36 +1000, David Timms wrote:
> I have though in the past that a useful approach for many applications 
> (eg word processor with a 100 page unsaved document opened and modified) 
> would be if at the signal to close they would need user response, then 
> the application could save-as (ensuring changes don't overwrite an 
> original document unexpectedly) with a name extended by the data and 
> time. This would ensure docs etc get saved to disk, rather than waiting 
> (forever) for user interaction.

We had that behaviour on an old Data General mainframe.  I can't
remember the name of the files anymore, but it was referred to as a
crash save during our orientation.

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