Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Possible (partial) Finder Irritation Solution Message-ID: <1989Oct24.235644.17777@NCoast.ORG> Date: 24 Oct 89 23:56:44 GMT References: <4729@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <222@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Distribution: comp.sys.mac Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH Lines: 31 As quoted from <222@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu> by edgar@gem.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar): +--------------- | In article <4729@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> erk@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Erik A Hanson) writes: | > Would it be a problem for Apple to allow you to select the file(s) you | >want to copy, choose "Copy" (or "Cut") from the menu, go to the destination | >folder, and "Paste"? Seems logical enough to me. | | What if the user pastes into the scrapbook? +--------------- Paste a list of filenames. Under System 7.0, this could be very useful if the Scrapbook is changed into a regular application which can then do useful things that (I would assume) are a bit harder in DAs like launching other applications. This could also be used in place of or in addition to the techniques used by RR 10.3 and by Zterm to construct batches of files for Y/Zmodem transfers. Moreover, using the Scrapbook would help alleviate copying/moving from multiple folders: select files from one folder, Copy, Paste to Scrapbook, select from next folder, Copy, Paste... then select the destination and Cut/Paste from the Scrapbook into the destination. Or Copy/Paste to copy to multiple folders. Think about it. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@NCoast.ORG uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu bsa@telotech.uucp 161-7070 (MCI), ALLBERY (Delphi), B.ALLBERY (GEnie), comp-sources-misc@backbone [comp.sources.misc-related mail should go ONLY to comp-sources-misc@] *Third party vote-collection service: send mail to allbery@uunet.uu.net (ONLY)*