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In article <41c5ql$n8c@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Duncan Grisby <dpg1001@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>In article <kevinbDDp6vK.I1K@netcom.com>,
> kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
>> 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.

Hmm...that works even better, at least in some respects.  It's
definitely more general and more elegant.  Thanks for the reminder!  I
used to have an Amiga, but I've always had two drives and I forgot
about that bit...

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