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From: jimmy@unix.cis.pitt.edu (James G Tauberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 and the auto folder
Message-ID: <26736@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 8 Aug 90 04:08:37 GMT
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In article <11293@chaph.usc.edu> baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
>   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).  

This is wrong.  In TOS 1.4 if when you drag files from a source to a
destination that are different disks, you do copy and then delete.
However, if it is to the same disk, it does not copy!  you do not need
extra disk space to do this operation.

later,
Jim Tauberg