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In article <marke-2208951323370001@port47.annex2.nwlink.com>,
marke@nwlink.com (Mark Eaton) wrote:

> In article <kevinbDDp6vK.I1K@netcom.com>, kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin
> Brown) wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> That was probably too much UI indirection. Mac UI design has always
> stressed direct manipulation where possible. You don't have 2 disks, why 2
> icons?
> 
> I think they were anticipationg the dual floppy configuration becoming
> standard anyways. Too bad they didn't think of the "Put Away" command
> early on.

According to most Mac books, the early manauls for the 128k mac had screen
shots and extensive documentation on the "alternate disk" method, but at
the last minute, UI designers chose the current method as being more
intuitive. As for me, i prefer to go to a program such as apple's DART or
Disk Copy for disk to disk duplication, and only use the finder FDHD
routines for copying for hard drive-> floppy copies. maybe apple should
code in the DART window when the need for disk duplication arises. that
would be very cool , and it would work in the background.
-nilay

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