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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <102@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 91 20:59:00 GMT
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Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
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Responding to the following:

"You managed to completely miss both of the points I made and fastened on
a single phrase that you don't care for."

I don't understand. You made a statement, and I corrected you. You stated
that the file type of a Macintosh file was kept in the resource fork. It
isn't. I wasn't attacking your points. However, they are invalid. You are
talking about interchange formats, documents. The interchange format docs
on the Macintosh don't NEED a resource fork and couldn't care less if they
had one! Our bitmap, drawing, text, formatted text, movie, sound, etc.
don't need resources, although they can be transfered into one (some of
them). You can just as easily use them on other machines. So what is
the interchange advantage of the Amiga?