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From: bdugan@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bill Dugan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Copying files in the backround of sys 7
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Date: 10 Apr 91 08:27:19 GMT
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In article <1991Apr9.235116.8823@umiami.ir.miami.edu> dweisman@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Ordinary Man) writes:
>[...]  This is pretty neat.. It's
>a little jumpy during a background copy, but otherwise fine. It sure beats
>waiting a few minutes for the copy to finish when you could be comparing text
>from your term paper to your rough draft or something like that.
>
>Dan

What I'd *really* like to do is format disks in the background.  It's nice to
be able to do that on the Next.  Especially great with hard disks and optical
cartridges, when the latter can take 20 minutes or half an hour.

bill