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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Copy and Move with Browser
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Date: 12 Aug 89 06:33:35 GMT
References: <1989Aug11.112637.13462@agate.berkeley.edu>
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/ comp.sys.next / clp@wjh12.harvard.edu (Charles L. Perkins) / Aug 11, 1989 /
> In the Macintosh world, the "Icon dragging" operation is defined as follows:
> 
>   (1) If you are dragging from the same disk to itself, it does a move,
>   (2) If you are dragging from one disk to another, it does a copy.

The Unix file hierarchy goes to great length to hide the presence of
multiple disks (if any).  I don't think it's a good idea to have a
situation where the result of dragging a file from directory
/pinkfiles/lastyear to directory /bluefiles/thisyear depends on whether those
directories happen to be on the same disk or not.

Jacob
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