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From: werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Print Selection... menu item in editors and other applications
Message-ID: <4105@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Oct-86 22:32:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.4105
Posted: Thu Oct  9 22:32:48 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Oct-86 03:31:06 EDT
References: <735@midas.UUCP> <767@ur-tut.UUCP>
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
Lines: 28
Keywords: Print Selection..., Editors, Word Processors, MacTerminal
Summary: let me add that I'd like to be able to APPEND selections to files ...

In article <767@ur-tut.UUCP>, akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (A Kacker) writes:
> In article <735@midas.UUCP> herbw@midas.UUCP (Herb Weiner) writes:
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> >MacTerminal has an extremely useful function in the File menu which allows
> >any contiguous subset of the document to be printed.  This menu item is
> >                                   -- Herb Weiner (...!tektronix!midas!herbw)
> Why should one be restricted to contiguous sections only ? It would 
> be nice to be able to select different subsections of a document to 
> be printed or saved to a disk file.

I can't help but jump in and yell for the missing capability to APPEND to
existing files ...

and while I'm yelling, when is Apple going to come out with an upgrade for
MacWrite (at least the manual that explains how) to recover from a crash
using the work-files that still lie around.  Just yesterday, I got a message
from a fellow-netter, telling me how his Mac crashed at 1am and after restarting
he found those "funny-named" files lieing around.  He tried to look at them
using MacWrite, but that wouldn't work.  so he double-clicked the text-doc
he had been working on with the vaguest of hopes that, just maybe, some of his
work was not lost - vain, of course.  Then, when he quit MacWrite, the funny
files were gone .....  do I need say more?  (brought to you by the folks with
the thin manuals, that don't have the word "Errors" in the index or Table of
Contents.  Wishful thinking that hurts all users, I say)

Quite honestly, MacWrite, both program and (lack of) documentation is not
a product I'd be very proud of - I wonder if Apple is?!
Oh yeah, the paper and print quality is great!!!