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From: dweisman@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Ordinary Man)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Copying files in the backround of sys 7
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.124547.8843@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 16:45:46 GMT
References: <50219@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991Apr9.235116.8823@umiami.ir.miami.edu> <2802CC67.25812@orion.oac.uci.edu>
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In article <2802CC67.25812@orion.oac.uci.edu>, bdugan@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bill Dugan) writes:

> 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

I agree. But can this be done from a programming/hardware standpoint?
Apple?

Dan

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