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From: neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)
Subject: Re: Reordering GS/OS directories
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.122800.6390@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
References: <1991Jan19.113613.14192@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> <14910@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Jan20.123020.26408@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> <14925@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 23 Jan 91 17:28:00 GMT

In article <14925@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <1991Jan20.123020.26408@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) writes:
>>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.
>>... So, move everything out of the root directory
>>of my 45MB drive (70% full) and copy them back, one by one?
>
>No, in fact the recommended procedure is so simple that I wonder why
>you don't see how to do it.  Make a NEW subdirectory, move everything
>in one fell swoop to that (trivial using the Finder), open the
>subdirectory folder, move everything that you are particularly
>concerned about back to the root in the desired order, then move the
>rest all at once.  If it takes you more than one minute you're doing
>something horribly wrong.

   Well, it's not that easy. Actually, if the ORCA/C shell can handle
forked files, I can copy files with it. One example of a folder with
files which I would want to have ordered properly is my Fonts folder,
and there are over a hundred files in it alone. The Finder doesn't
preserve the order of files when copying, so copying the fonts folder
with it would scramble the order. It can be done, but it will take
considerably longer than a minute. Even after moving the system files, I
need two new spaces between the system files and the application
folders. The first two application folders go several subdirectories
deep, and are already ordered properly. I'd have to copy them file by
file. Anyway, it's not critical at the moment, just annoying, to have
the files out of order. I need ProSel anyway, and the procedure you
describe would take considerably more than a minute.
   ORCA/C has a command to reorder directories, but it doesn't work on
hard disks, only on disks formatted with the ProDOS FST. I tried it, it
works on a 5"1/4 or 3"1/2 floppy, but not on my hard drive.


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