Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!dewey.soe.berkeley.edu!oster From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Better Windows? (stolen from another newsgroup) Message-ID: <19051@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Wed, 27-May-87 14:19:33 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.19051 Posted: Wed May 27 14:19:33 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 01:45:31 EDT References: <8705190042.AA14664@cogsci.berkeley.edu> <30@aimmi.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) Organization: School of Education, UC-Berkeley Lines: 19 gilbert@aimmi.UUCP (Gilbert Cockton) writes: +Case 2: you never know EVERYTHING you'll ever want to do with files(objects). + The number of operations can then get VERY big - how many + folk round here would like a GREP facility on the Mac - or + the ability to print an object without opening it... Just like to point out that you can easily print an object without going through a lot of user-interface interactions: just select one, or a group of objects in the finder, and choose "Print" from the Finder's "File" menu. It starts up their owning application, and hands them to it along with a print message. Applications that conform to the Macintosh user interface guidlines (and more than 95% do) will print the documents and quit without further interaction from you other than confirming that you want a single copy of all pages at the same print quality as last time (which you do by either a single mouse click or a single key press. --- David Phillip Oster -- "The goal of Computer Science is to Arpa: oster@lapis.berkeley.edu -- build something that will last at Uucp: ucbvax!ucblapis!oster -- least until we've finished building it."