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Mac Mode
So how do you make a copy of a file on the same diskette? Select
the file by clicking once on it, then use Duplicate rile under the rile
menu on the Desktop. You'll get a new file named "Copy Of (whatever
it was)". You can then rename it to whatever you want. How? Click on
the name under the icon; the name will highlight and the cursor will
change (to an I-Beam). Press backspace to delete the old name, and
type in a new one.
If all of this sounds like pretty wild territory, it's time to get an
introductory Mac book, like Cary Lu's Macintosh Book, and check it
out.
Sometimes the Macintosh will need something off a diskette
you've taken out. (This happens a LOT on single drive systems, where
you booted with one disk, then ran a program off another disk). It'll
display a message asking you to switch disks, and will eject the present
one; you'll see the blinking A or B. You have to take the disk out, to
satisfy the blinking A or B, and press F1 /F2 if the ST misses you taking
out the disk. Then, you have to put in the disk the Mac is asking for,
and again press F1 /F2 if the ST misses the disk-insert. Yes, in some
ways, it's akin to being a slave to the computer.
Well, I'm sure that when you were growing up, you never thought
you'd grow up to be a disk change mechanism, so let's talk about
something else.
One or Two Drive Floppy Systems
If you have a single disk drive system, you're quickly going to
find out why Mac owners ran, not walked, to buy second disk drives
(or hard disks). The amount of forced disk swapping you'll do will
soon drive you crazy. It's that way on a single drive Mac, too. Why?
Usually, when this happens, the Mac is looking for something
from the "System" file while running a program - a font, a "resource",
or something else. Say the program needs the "Times" font, and
doesn't have it on the current disk (since it's stored in the System file) .
Well, the Mac OS will ask you to change disks to one that has the
System/Finder it ran first, and thus the Times font on it, for long
enough to read in the Times font. Then it'll switch back to the other
disk to get on with the program.
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