Re: The GS lives again! :-)

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <1994Oct12.010542.2381@adobe.com>,
Seth Kadesh <skadesh@mv.us.adobe.com> wrote:
>"The system [Mac OS 7.5] still lags way behind the Apple IIGS in graceful
>copy handling if some items have names that duplicate those of other files
>at the destination."

   I personally think Finder 6.0.1 could be better, more like GHSK or
other programs in copying files: when a directory is copied, GSHK and
others check to see if the directory is already there, and if so,
simply merge the contents in. Finder sees that the directory is
already there, and asks if you want to replace the directory or abort
the process. This makes merging directories a pain as you have to copy
the contents of everything in turn.

   In short, if I copied the icons folder to my boot drive (by
dragging the whole folder to the HD's icon), the Finder should notice
that */icons already exists, has lots of contents, and ask me if
I just want to add the contents of the folder I just dragged, rather
than asking me to abort or overwrite lots of stuff.

   Still, it's neat that the GS was mantioned. Now, if only they could
mention _real_ plusses of GS/OS, like speed, the extensible & modular
driver, fst, init (I don't think a mac version of IR exists at all),
and other nice tweaks like a toolbox that has a bunch of high-level
routines (Mac toolbox doesn't support pop-up menus from TaskMaster;
programmers have to add support for this manually and other craziness)
then people would notice what they've been missing.

Nathan Mates

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