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- From: jackr@wpd.sgi.com (John "Jack" Repenning)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: 7.0.1* Pointless Floppy Flip-Flops
- Date: 16 Dec 92 09:35:16
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Lines: 17
- Message-ID: <JACKR.92Dec16093516@dblues.wpd.sgi.com>
- References: <1992Dec15.162841.21980@athena.mit.edu>
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- In-reply-to: tbandit@athena.mit.edu's message of 15 Dec 92 16:28:41 GMT
-
- In article <1992Dec15.162841.21980@athena.mit.edu> tbandit@athena.mit.edu (Carlos E Reategui) writes:
-
- I tryed sending this dirrectly to jackr@wpd.sgi.com but it bounced so I'm
- replying here. Hope you guys don't mind.
-
- Sorry - my system was really sick there for a day or two!
-
- When you cmd-y a floppy it does not leave an image on the desktop.
- You were probably doing cmd-e for eject which does leave an outline
- of the floppy on the desktop.
-
- Ah, yes, you're right, I mis-quoted. But "leave an image on the
- desktop" is what I wanted I was copying a lot of files from hard disk
- to floppies, using a "greedy method" of dropping the biggest into the
- first disk, then the next biggest, ... until it said "no room;" that
- one goes into disk two, but the next one might fit in disk 1, and so
- on. So I wanted immediate access to each disk.
-