awg0971@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (King Lerch) (04/16/91)
I some article, someone wrote: > Too slow at copying files? Please tell me, IF IT EXISTS, of a program >that is faster at copying files than the Finder. FILES that is, and not whole >disks. How about wings? It copys files far faster and better, in my opinion. If you open a big folder with around 200-300 files, it doesn't sit there and wait for you to go out for lunch. You can also use standard apple commands like open apple select and unselect. Shift for all files up to etc... It also has the other options the finder does like verify and format etc... _ _ _ _ | | / ) | | | | | | / / _ | | | | | | / / (_) _ ____ ______ | | ______ _ __ ____ | | | |/ / _ | | / __ \ ./ ___ \ | | / ___ \ | | / \ / __ \ | | ___ | _ \ | || |/ / | || (_^_) )| | | (_^_) | | |/ /\_)| / \_)| |/ \ | | \ \ | || _/ | |(____ || | \ _____/__| _/ | | __| ___ | | | \ \ | || | | | \/\/) )| |_____ \ \____/ /| | | |__/ /| ( ) | |_| \_)|_||_| |_| ____/ / |_______) \______/ |_| \____/ |_| |_| (______/ AWG0971@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU
unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) (04/21/91)
In art <1991Apr16.135155.5039@isc.rit.edu> awg0971@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes: >I some article, someone wrote: >> Too slow at copying files? Please tell me, IF IT EXISTS, of a program >>that is faster at copying files than the Finder. FILES that is, and not whole >>disks. >How about wings? It copys files far faster and better, in my opinion. If you >open a big folder with around 200-300 files, it doesn't sit there and wait for I like Wings a lot, especially for it's double-window approach for copying files (file window for source and file window for destination). I still think it's a hell of a lot slower than the Finder though.. ESPECIALLY if you are trying to copy from one floppy to another. It copies files ONE BY ONE, rather than copying as many as will fit into memory at a time. I hope to buy the GS/OS manual sometime in the future and write a small application or desk accessory that will be an amalgam of the best of the Finder and the best of Wings.. (i.e. Wings' interface and the Finder's don't-spit-anything-out-to-disk-until-memory-is-full characteristic) By the way could you PLEASE cut down your .signature? Even at 2400 baud it is annoying, especially when there are a few messages by you in a row. I used to have a message trailer as big or bigger than yours on BBSes, and people harped at me about it. I was obstinate and didn't want to change it. I have since (in the past 7 years of modemming) realized that they MAY have had a point.. (heh heh) Especially when you're using "other people's" networks, it'd be nice if you shortened your .sig... (and didn't quote a WHOLE message to add 2 lines of comment.. That's not specifically to you, but to EVERYONE who does it. I've seen people quote a whole 100 line message and add 2 lines on!) -- /unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu Apple IIGS Forever! WANT ULTIMA VI //e or GS?-mail me.\ \CHEAP CDs info-mail me. McIntosh Junior: The Power to Crush the Other Kids. /