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From: baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer)
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Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 and the auto folder
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Date: 7 Aug 90 06:34:22 GMT
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In article <1990Aug4.035623.27770@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu> vanleeuw@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (James Van Leeuwen) writes:
>accelerator, and a few others.  I'm going to send a nice little program
>that allows for moving (as opposed to copying) files with the right button
>to comp.binaries.atari.st tonight.  It'll show up in a while.  
   As I understand it, when you move a file, you are actually copying the file
and then deleting the original (if this is wrong, PLEASE correct this).  Would
it be possible to make a patch that just changes the directory path of the file
when moving it, rather then having to copy the entire file - this is especially
helpful when the file is large, not to mention if you are pushing the limit of
your drive size (500k left and you want to move a 600k file) or if your drive
is already getting highly fragmented files.
    So is it possible, or would the change have to come with TOS1.8 (TOS18?)?
>
>Jim 
>-- 
>"We didn't start the fire,   /   ___/_                        Jim Van Leeuwen 
>it was always burning      /   /  /  \               The University of Dayton 
>since the world's been    /___/__/   /  UUCP: vanleeuw@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu
>turning..."  --Billy Joel    /______/                             GEnie: JVAN

-Mike