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From: kchang@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Kenneth Chang)
Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
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In article <1991Mar27.032812.23838@ccad.uiowa.edu> cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI) writes:
>Ok, last but not least, When I unbox tha MAC, and I have an ASCII file
>to print (I haven't looked at software packages yet mind you), how do
>I send this file to the printer?  

It depends on how intelligently you have things set up. In the worst case, you
would have to launch an application or desk accessory, open the file and then
select "Print" from the File menu.

If you have it set up so the the creator of the text file is something you
have or if you have HandOff installed so that all text files are by default
associated with a given word processor, then all you would have to do is
click on the file to select it and then pull down "Print" from the File menu
in Finder to print it.

If this sounds un-Macish, well, yes, it is. (After all, the user isn't
supposed to have to know anything about file types and file creators.)
The "application not found" message is annoying. (Have they fixed this
in 7.0?)

And, oh yes, if you have MPW, then it's probably something trivial.

>Matter of fact, I just wanna spit some stuff out the Serial port.
>Such as a command to turn off auto answer at boot-up:

Don't know. It's not trivial under the MacOS. It may be trivial with MPW.
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