Re: Installing Lisa Office applications on Profile?

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From: Chris Smolinski <csmolinski_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:04:11 -0500

>The Lisa Office System's Desktop Manager ("finder") copying methodology was
>to always _MOVE_ a document whenever you copied it. To make a copy
>(duplicate) you used the Duplicate command (it may have been called Make
>Duplicate but that sounds too wordy to me).
>
>This made "copying" very consistent in the Lisa user interface, but was a
>bit confusing to users. They could end up "copying" a document from a floppy
>to the hard disk and then ejecting the floppy without realizing the document
>was no longer on the floppy.

Thanks everyone for their help, this reminded me that I needed to duplicate the application first on the floppy, then move the duplicate to the hard drive.

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com

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Received on 2004-11-28 06:19:10