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In article <kevinbDDp6vK.I1K@netcom.com>,
 kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
> In article <hotelca-2008950243090001@192.0.2.1>,
> Hotel California <hotelca@cris.com> wrote:

[... Ejecting / copying disks...]

> >Now for a small piece of history.  As they were preparing System 1 for
> >shipping they had a different method.  You used the "Alternate Disk."  It
> >was a virtual disk you used for copying.  You would drag the file to copy
> >onto the alternate disk and then eject the disk.  No ghost image would
> >appear.  Then you insert the disk to copy onto and drag the files from the
> >alternate disk onto the floppy.  The files would be switched, swaping
> >disks as necessary.  It was eliminated by the ghost image method not long
> >before the 128 started shipping.  In fact it still appeared in the Manual
> >and in the instruction program that came with the 128.
> 
> Neither way is ideal.  The ideal way is to have an alternate disk icon
> (that appears as a ghost image) always on the desktop whenever a disk
> is present in the drive.  You drag the files you want to copy from
> whatever source to the alternate disk.  If the source was a hard drive
> or a second disk, the copy would proceed as if the destination were
> the primary disk icon.  If the source was the primary disk, the system
> would perform the single-floppy copy and would automatically eject the
> disks for you (and prompt you to insert the other disk) as it needed
> to.

How about the Amiga's method -- a disk icon stays on the
desktop for as long as something is using it. This includes
having a window of one of its directories open in Workbench.
To copy a file from one disk to another, you simply put the
source disk in, and locate the directory window(s) you
require. You then eject the disk and put the destination
one in. Now, when you drag the files from one window to the
other, the system prompts for the necessary disks to
perform the copy.

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