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From: phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Reordering GS/OS directories
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.140221.86204@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 24 Jan 91 03:02:21 GMT
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In article <1991Jan23.122800.6390@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>, neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) writes:
>    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.
> 
	Actually the ORCA shell command to reorder directories works on any
disk, it just won't work on your boot disk (the system has a file open always). 
So if you want to use this command on a hard disk just boot from a floppy! 
Works like a dream.

-- 
Stephen Harker				phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Monash University