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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
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Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 18 Mar 91 20:55:33 GMT
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In article <45668@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>Command-. documented in the manuals, and is given in many circumstances in 
>which length procedures are taking place.  Anyone who has canceled a print job
>on a Mac knows that.  The messages stares you in the face as you print.

Great, but why should I "the idiot user" automatically recognize those instances
where command-. can be applied?  Why should I "the idiot user" want to read the
manual -- isn't that why I bought a M*c to begin with?

Sure, the learning curve is more graceful, but it doesn't mean that we can't
recognize where improvement can be made, does it?  I hope not...

>Command-shift-3 to dump the screen to disk.  Command-shift-4 to print the 
>current window to an ImageWriter.  These commands are on the command reference
>card that comes with the Mac.  OK, so they fudged when they said you don't
>have to RTFM.  (The screen dump goes to the root level of the disk with the 
>currently active System, I think.) 

Great -- I actually knew that by the way.  We had a discussion in our graduate
user-interface course -- not even the Mac *expert* knew where the file ended
up.  He said that it might depend on the system you were running.  Sheesh...

The point is, these things should be accessed in a better manner -- at least
that's my claim.  I'd much rather have a menu bring up a dialog box with these
commands.  And gee, you might even describe where the file was gonna end up
too...  [Of course, giggle, you'd have to close the dialog box before you 
actually printed the screen :) ]

>>Hasn't anyone ever seen that ESC key?  What do people suppose it might be
 
>Terminal emulation, of course.

I do hope there's an implied smiley there... :)


David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
Signature erased, because it used to be something snide against the Mac. 
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