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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Now that the smoke had cleared (Honest Mac/IBM questions)
Message-ID: <1870@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 89 01:49:48 GMT
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Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR.
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Believe me, there *will* be circumstances where a user wants to move
a file from a subdirectory to the root directory. My roommate has an
Atari 1040 ST. This uses the GEM interface (much like the Mac's)

To configure his word processor, the instructions said to copy 
the correct driver from the drivers subdirectory to Print.DRV
in the root directory.

I will not detail the various arcane things we tried before finding something
that would work. We had to open the disk as drive A: and as drive B: (one drive
machine) we made the root directory the current directory on one drive
and the drivers directory current on the other. Then we just copied from 
A: to B: and ignored the "swap disks" prompts. <blech!>

Now that I have a 3.5 drive on my PC, i'd just copy the stuff to one of my
disks, copy the file, and give him the disk.... it'd be faster.
-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
CIS: [70465,203]
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.
Let's start with typewriters." -- Solomon Short