Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!zaphod!francis From: francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 06:56:34 GMT References: <29227@cs.yale.edu> <4245@gmdzi.gmd.de> <29390@cs.yale.edu> <1991Mar12.025422.11530@amd.com> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: phil@brahms.amd.com's message of 12 Mar 91 02:54:22 GMT In article <1991Mar12.025422.11530@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes: In article <29390@cs.yale.edu> favorini-francis@cs.yale.edu (Francis Favorini) writes: |following, 'cause I'm at home on my Mac. Sometimes you pick files from |one list and directories from another. Sometimes both from one list. |Only occasionally can you go easily to the current directory' parent. |Sometimes there is a button labelled "UP". Sometimes, you can click |on ".." in the directory list. Sometimes you have to type ..\*.* |in the filename text box. This is ridiculous. I guarantee you if MS seems to be getting more consistent with their newer software. Maybe Apple is a little ahead in this regard, but I can live with it. A LITTLE ahead? Try "has had a standard interface ever since it came out--changed it when it added true subdirectories, but everything worked fine." That's a HELL of a long way ahead. (And it's easy on programmers, too, which means that we all use it! :-) -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \============================================================================/