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From: steve@jplgodo.UUCP (Steve Schlaifer x43171 301/167)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: InCider's comments on the new //GS
Message-ID: <827@jplgodo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 12:41:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 29 12:41:28 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 3-Oct-86 00:18:10 EDT
References: <4158@reed.UUCP>
Organization: Jet Propulsion Labs, Pasadena, CA
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Summary: //GS also has plain text pages

In article <4158@reed.UUCP>, kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) writes:
> 
> [ Summary: upset that the //GS only provides mac-like windows and must
>   use graphics for text only applications (spreadsheets, word processor,
>   etc.). Also doesn't want to have to use built-in toolboxes. ]

Although there has not been any mention of it that I have seen, I know for
a fact that the GS has text pages and you can easily switch back and forth
between graphics display and text display (GrafOff and GrafOn calls in 
QuickDraw II toolbox).  Should make text only applications much faster but 
you can still do graphics.  As far as using toolboxes goes, I would rather
make use of someone else's code that they have spent a great deal of effort
to get right than have to reinvent it myself.  I have more code to write than
I will ever get done in many lifetimes.  If someone wants to provide me with
a quality graphics/sound/windowing/line edit/etc package great--just makes
my own programming faster.
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