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From: awessels@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: Can't resize windows? (was Re: Windows 3.0 & the Mac)
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Date: 17 Jul 90 18:34:43 GMT
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In article <3114@gmdzi.UUCP> strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:

>Therefore I think that the concurrent *use* of two or more
>applications (i.e. have two copies of the notepad editor and
>one kermit running and cut and paste between all three
>while composing a message, for example) is to my knowledge 
>more common under Windows than on the Mac, which makes it less
>attractive for applications to give up screen space, on the Mac.
>(I do not doubt that it is possible to cut and paste between
>different running application. But how much and how smooth
>is it used?)
>
>Of course this is how a Windows user/programmer with nearly no 
>Macintosh experience (me) sees it, so please take the above 
>statements as a question: is this observation correct? If not, why?

Well, I've been using MultiFinder since before its release, and I've been
doing multiwindow c&p cleanly and easily all this time.  MF is more efficient
in using screen space since most menus share the menubar.  Even before
MultiFinder, copy and paste between applications was pretty easy using 
Switcher.  

I use Finder on my Mac Plus at work most of the time, and I often use several
DAs at once.  If you tile the windows carefully, losing only a few pixels of
screen space, you can conveniently copy and paste between notebooks, 
scrapbooks, and whatnot.  All it takes to switch is a single click on the 
window to be copied from or to.  No muss, no fuss.

Of course, I use 30-40 DAs and as many inits/cdevs to enhance this setup, but
I've shown even fairly novice, one application users how to do this (and they've
even rediscovered the technique after I've shown it to them.)