hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) (06/15/90)
In article <3130005@hplsla.HP.COM>, davidr@hplsla.HP.COM (David M. Reed) writes: > > In line with the "little things" that irritate me. A simple one is the > copy/move under File Manager. It is inconsistent. If I select a file in > one directory and tell it to copy to another directory, if the two directories > are on the same drive it does a move. (You have to use the CTRL key in > combination with the mouse to mean "copy"). But if the two directories are > on separate drives, then it does a copy. (And I can't figure out how to make > it do a "move", that is copy from first directory on first drive to second > directory on second drive and then delete original.) I would expect that > move is move (irregardless if it is same drive or not) and copy and copy > (irregardless if it is same drive or not). You do a MOVE between different drives by holding down the ALT key. I agree that it's inconsistent, but I rather prefer the default between drives to be COPY and the default within a drive to be MOVE. Like so many things, we're biased by what we've been used to in the past. -- Roger Hadgraft | hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au Lecturer in Civil Engineering | phone: +61 3 565 4983 Monash University | fax: +61 3 565 3409 Clayton, Vic. 3168. Australia. |