Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!husc6!wjh12!clp From: clp@wjh12.harvard.edu (Charles L. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Copy and Move with Browser Message-ID: <381@wjh12.harvard.edu> Date: 11 Aug 89 20:42:28 GMT References: <1989Aug11.112637.13462@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: clp@wjh12.UUCP (Charles L. Perkins) Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA Lines: 16 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. This has the rather nice feature that backups, copying from friends, etc., all work the way you'd expect while hard-disk-hard-disk movement also does what you want. This strategy is probably the way to go...inconsistent though it is, I found it instantly easy to remember once I learned it the first time. A UNIX hacker, having recently visited Mac-Land, Charles