Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!midway!midway.uchicago.edu!francis From: francis@daisy.zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Copying files in the backround of sys 7 Message-ID: Date: 16 Apr 91 00:22:55 GMT References: <1991Apr10.141322.25903@ifi.uio.no> <1991Apr10.223846.16355@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Apr12.221121.29670@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1991Apr13.180850.21255@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: n67786@cc.tut.fi's message of 14 Apr 91 08: 49:55 GMT In article <1991Apr13.180850.21255@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Race Bannon) writes: >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. It's been done, and fairly well (I'm told). If you tell FastBack to back up your HD in the background, it'll prompt for floppies as needed, and format them in the background. I was told (this was a couple of years ago) that the performance didn't drop a whole lot. -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Should five percent appear too small, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | Be thankful I don't take it all. "Taxman" | \============================================================================/