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From: john13@garfield.MUN.EDU (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Dropping a disk icon
Message-ID: <5022@garfield.MUN.EDU>
Date: 5 Dec 88 21:43:58 GMT
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial U. of Newfoundland, St. John's
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Having disk icons call a tool to handle disk copying is a very handy idea.
Could this perhaps be extended? I've often wished that the tool called
up was "Super Smart Disk Utilities" or something -- it would deal with
many different cases of copying, and handle special disks.

For instance,

drop a NDOS or BAD disk icon -- I'm prompted "want me to DiskSalv the bad disk 
onto the good one?"

drop a disk icon onto a HD icon, ramdisk icon, or any other of different
size / type -- it optionally does the same as "cp -r", creating a directory
in the target device and copying all the files

Also options for destructive (track by track), non-destructive (copy all files
from one disk to another) or update (copy only files that are newer) when
dropping disk icons. Add a control panel where you can select write verify,
convert to/from FFS & SFS during the copy, and other goodies and Workbench
would become a lot more usable.

This is the sort of thing that could be done without revamping the Workbench,
just by improving or replacing the normal system "diskcopy" command.

John
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