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From: neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)
Subject: Re: Reordering GS/OS directories
Message-ID: <1991Jan20.123020.26408@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
References: <1991Jan19.113613.14192@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> <14910@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 20 Jan 91 17:30:20 GMT

In article <14910@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <1991Jan19.113613.14192@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) writes:
>>   Can anybody provide me with the name of an FTPable program which can
>>reorder GS/OS directories?
>
>The simplest way to do this is to move everything out of the directory,
>then move them back in in the order that you want.

   Oh boy, wouldn't this be fun! I just spent a full day transferring
files to my new cartridge drive, and then after the whole thing was
finished I decided I wanted to make it boot into ProDOS8, with a BASIC
program which could run the system disk file originally named "PRODOS"
to launch the Finder. Now, that file, "PRODOS2" is at the end of the 20+
files catalog. Not only does this slow the boot down imperceptibly, but
the new BYE routine in ProDOS8 doesn't let you wrap around the top and
bottom of the list, so selecting that program takes some time while I
arrow down the whole list. So, move everything out of the root directory
of my 45MB drive (70% full) and copy them back, one by one? Don't forget
that the subdirectories are more or less ordered the way I want them, so
I could find myself copying individual files through the Finder until
next May. The Finder makes no effort to preserve the order of files
inside subdirectories when the subdirectory is being copied.
   Thanks, but I'll buy ProSel-16 and do it the easy way.


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