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From: dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Race Bannon)
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Subject: Re: Copying files in the backround of sys 7
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Yes, but do you WANT to be able to 'do' something while its formatting?
Formatting sucks a tremendous amount of cycles.  I suspect that your cursor
would be so jerky that it would be hard to accomplish anything anyway.

What someone needs to invent is a small device that formats floppies.
Then you could do boxes and boxes of them without tying up your machine.
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Dan Walkowski                          | To understand recursion, 
Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci. |   you must first understand recursion.
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