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From: bazyar@ernie (Jawaid Bazyar)
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Subject: Re: Reordering GS/OS directories
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.064003.591@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 91 06:40:03 GMT
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In article <1991Jan23.051226.28901@ee.ualberta.ca> jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner) writes:

>The problem with copying files is that if you have lots (>100) files,it
>is going to take over a minutes if you need a bunch of things in specific
>orders.  What we need (and I don't think it exists, unless Prosel can do
>it (and I don't have prosel and have never seen it)) is a program
>that lets you do arbitrary file swaps.  On ANY size directory.

  Note that Doug said "move" not "copy". Moving a file with the finder
to a different directory on the same disk takes a minimal amount of time-
only the directory entry is messed with, not the file.


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