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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
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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