Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!gore!jacob From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Copy and Move with Browser Message-ID: <130013@gore.com> Date: 12 Aug 89 06:33:35 GMT References: <1989Aug11.112637.13462@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) Organization: Gore Enterprises Lines: 15 / 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 -- Jacob Gore Jacob@Gore.Com {nucsrl,boulder}!gore!jacob