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From: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: finder irritations (window layers in copying, hqx included)
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Date: 19 Oct 89 01:51 GMT
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In article <1766@durer.cme.nbs.gov> chris@sunset.ncsl.nist.gov (Chris Schanzle) writes:
>jsp@key.COM (James Preston) writes:
>>In article <111900082@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> ddgg0881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>>
>>>1. You have two folders open and you want to transfer or
>>>copy a file from one to the other. You click on the file
>>>you want to move and then its window comes to the front
>>>which totally obliterates your view of the destination folder.
>>>Yuck! it would have been easier to use DOS or UNIX.
>
>>Yes!  YES!  YES!  I am a relatively new (< 6 mos.) Mac user and this is,
>>without a doubt, my number one complaint in the "sounds small, but is
>>amazingly irritating" category.  
>
>Guys!  You obviously haven't seen or heard about an init called "Rear
>Window".  It allows you to click and drag icons on lower windows to
>other (higher) windows.  It uses the Command + Tab keys to distinguish
>from the standard operation of clicking and dragging.  If you can see
>what you want to copy and where you want to copy it to, you can do it!
>

  Yes, yes, but it doesn't work under MultiFinder...

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