john13@garfield.MUN.EDU (John Russell) (12/06/88)
Having disk icons call a tool to handle disk copying is a very handy idea. Could this perhaps be extended? I've often wished that the tool called up was "Super Smart Disk Utilities" or something -- it would deal with many different cases of copying, and handle special disks. For instance, drop a NDOS or BAD disk icon -- I'm prompted "want me to DiskSalv the bad disk onto the good one?" drop a disk icon onto a HD icon, ramdisk icon, or any other of different size / type -- it optionally does the same as "cp -r", creating a directory in the target device and copying all the files Also options for destructive (track by track), non-destructive (copy all files from one disk to another) or update (copy only files that are newer) when dropping disk icons. Add a control panel where you can select write verify, convert to/from FFS & SFS during the copy, and other goodies and Workbench would become a lot more usable. This is the sort of thing that could be done without revamping the Workbench, just by improving or replacing the normal system "diskcopy" command. John -- "Media is Ignorent, Researchers Say" -- either this is an incredibly sarcastic headline-writer, or...