Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!dutrun!leo
From: leo@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Novice question: Copying many files
Summary: Why isn't *all* my memory used?
Message-ID: <966@dutrun.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 89 12:27:46 GMT
Sender: tnphnws@dutrun.UUCP
Reply-To: leo@duttnph.UUCP (Leo Breebaart)
Organization: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Lines: 17

I am a relatively new Macintosh owner, and in the past few months a number
of questions assembled themselves in my head. Some I could answer by
reading this newsgroup, some I eventually figured out, and some still
haunt my dreams. Over the next few days I want to post several of these
questions. If they have been discussed before, my apologies. If they
are stupid RTFM questions I also apologize. In any case, I would appreciate
any answers the net can come up with. For instance:

Why, when copying files, does the Mac not fill up as much memory as possible?
Under MultiFinder, I can understand; but when I am running the finder on my
SE/30 with 4 Mb and system 6.03, it switches about 4/5 times between 
reading/writing if I copy a floppy to the hard disk. I don't like that very 
much. Why does it happen, and is there anything I can do about it?

Thanks in advance,

Leo Breebaart (leo @ duttnph.tudelft.nl)