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From: woody@nntp-server.caltech.edu (William Edward Woody)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.061300.7636@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 91 06:13:00 GMT
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In article <1991Mar26.063111.3133@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@obelix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
>On the mac, if you double click on the (greyed) icon for Word, you get
>back to the running copy. Also, on the Mac, double clicking on a
>second word doc gets you into word with the document, with Word for
>Windows, you will get the error message. This is only in part because
>of the way word is written, it is also because the FileManager,
>Program Manager and Desktop are seperate entities in Windows, but all
>parts of the same thing in the Macintosh Finder.
>
>The seperation makes a different to users. I had a user who kept going
>back to the icon in the program manager (that was the one that she new
>about because that is the one she used to start Word with), and double
>clicking on it, which resulted in her repeatedly getting the same
>message. Finally, in frustration, she said "Yes I KNOW!! So RUN it!!"

	Strictly speaking, the problem your friend is experiencing is a
problem with Word.  Window has many mechanisms for running an application;
each of these pretty much funnel down to the same routine which actually
runs the application.

	On running the application a second time, the application can
at that point choose to allow a second copy to run at the same time, or
to abort the second copy.  This causes Windows to put up the message 'no
cigar'.

	Your friend can figure out what's running by clicking in the
desktop; though I don't have a Windows machine next to me, I do believe
that this will pop up a modal dialog which lists all the programs which
are currently running, and will allow you to select one of them.

	--

	See, I may be deeply imbedded in 'Mac Zen', but I still know
a little bit about Windows... ;-)

					-- Bill

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