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From: Armadillo@cup.portal.com (Russ Armadillo Coffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: America Online
Message-ID: <24761@cup.portal.com>
Date: 6 Dec 89 21:56:10 GMT
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Mark Fulk:

Don't quite understand what you mean about "cached menus." Do you mean
returning to a point you were at earlier? If you leave windows open as you
navigate, use the Windows menu to go directly to any previous window.
If you have places you visit regularly, just add them to your personal Go To
menu - then you can go anywhere with a Command-N. What's relly nice about AOL
is that you don't have to "leave" one area to go to another - and you can
return instantly to any area(s). You can take part in a chat while reading
messages in another forum, etc. Using an undocumented trick, you can even
download a file while chatting - impossible on any other service.

"Whenever viewing a document, a user should be given the option of saving it."
To save any doc you're viewing, just use Save or Save As... for more options. 

America Online DOES support binary file transfer. I haven't seen a single
BinHexed file there, in fact. Not only that, AOL does a RLL data compression
on both upload and download. This saves time and money, and while not as
efficient as some of the options in StuffIt, works well enough on short files
that you might as well not bother to use StuffIt at all, unless you're also
combining files, too. There's a file in ForumLink/Forum News that explains and
demonstrates this graphically - a 23K file that transfers in about 10 seconds.
I cheated and put a lot 0's in the middle of the file so it compresses a lot,
but it demonstrates the concept. Ya gotta wonder why no one else has ever done
this.

I agree a picture of the tree would be nice. At least if you forget a path,
you can always navigate Mac-style - with other services, you GOTTA know the
commands, and you gotta leave the area you're in to get somewhere else -
then reverse the process to get back.

For more information, see Help under the Apple menu.

AFL RussC