Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!copper!kiran From: kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Inappropriate dialog under 7.0... Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 91 09:27:17 GMT Article-I.D.: copper.kiran.676546037 References: <7425@cactus.org> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University Lines: 25 >rdd@cactus.org (Robert Dorsett) writes: >>The setup: copying files to a disk which already has identical files on it. >>The resulting dialog: >> "Some items in this location have the same names as items you're >> moving. Do you want to replace them with the onces you're moving?" >>Could cause some alarm, especially if the user takes it at face value (i.e., >>moving = copy + delete). norton@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Norton Chia) replies: >At face value, replacing with the on(c)es you're moving means exactly that -> >I'm going to wipe out (replace) the stuff with the ones I'm copying across >(moving). So what's the alarm? But you're not moving them. You're copying them. If you were moving a file, you'd still only have one of it. But if you copy it to another disk, you have two of it. -- ...kiran __________kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu________(812) 331-1710 From the corrections column in a July Fresno, CA _Bee_: "An item in Thursday's [issue] about the Massachusetts budget crisis made reference to new taxes that will help put Massachusetts 'back in the African-American.' The item should have said 'back in the black.'"