Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mstan!jordan 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) Organization: Morgan Stanley and Co., NY, NY Lines: 13 Charles L. Perkinswrites: > 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