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From: jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Reordering GS/OS directories
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.051226.28901@ee.ualberta.ca>
Date: 23 Jan 91 05:12:26 GMT
References: <1991Jan19.113613.14192@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> <14910@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Jan20.123020.26408@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> <14925@smoke.brl.mil>
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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.

Ack!  What a horrible way to do it.  Not everyone is going to have
the Orca Shell (the text one) but it has a command to swap two directory
entries (as well as a command to sort directories).  

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.
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    Jerry Penner	alberta!bode!jpenne	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada