Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!evax!cs4344af From: cs4344af@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Fuzzy Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Geos help Message-ID: <1991Jan14.173632.5556@evax.arl.utexas.edu> Date: 14 Jan 91 17:36:32 GMT References: <3904@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington Lines: 23 In article <3904@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> mford@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Mark Ford) writes: >When I want to copy a file from 1581 disk to another 1581 disk, (or 1571 >disk to 1571 disk) I drag the icon to the boarder, close the disk, take >out the 1581 disk, and stick in a new one. When I open the new 1581 disk >and drag the icon onto the deskpad, it says to stick the first 1581 disk >into Drive A. Ha, drive A is my 1571 and will have trouble reading the >1581 disk!! GEOS still has that problem of thinking that it can read any disk in any drive, I think. However, unlike GEOS 1.3, it does not make the stupid mistake of asking you to insert a disk into your RAMdrive (DUMB!). However, think of it this way...if GEOS did what you wanted and let you swap disks in and out, you would probably have to swap the disk 30 times for even a reasonably sized file (say, if you copy GeoWrite). Probably your fastest and easiest method is to copy the 1581 file to a scratch 1571 disk, then go back again. If that doesn't appeal to you, you can wear your arm out swapping disks, or buy some GeoRAM. :) -- begin 644 .signature G5&AI