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From: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Copy and Move with Browser
Message-ID: <339@zooks.Morgan.COM>
Date: 14 Aug 89 17:43:14 GMT
References: <1989Aug11.112637.13462@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
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Charles L. Perkins  writes:

> 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 utility mv(1) does *almost* this, except when the (2) case
happens, it also unlink(2)s the original.  I think the Mac version is a
hack, but on a NeXT I could see something like Control-drag doing a
copy ...

/jordan