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From: schung@cory.Berkeley.EDU
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Subject: More on "improving" Finder
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Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 04:27:45 EDT
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I too, find it very incovenient having to have MacWrite or MacPaint everytime
I just want to look at the dump of a file.  The problem gets worse when the
file is just a plain text file, e.g. a note from one of the public domain
programs.  I'll have to wait for MacWrite to reformat(?) it and answer
stupid questions, like whether I want to have line breaks or carriage
returns.  

I know Mac people--not all of them--HATE UN*X and MSDOS, but I think it won't
do any harm if we can have something like RASNIX--ever heard of it?--but more
useful: able to change directories, excuse me, folders; and albe to "cat"
a file in a zip, no matter what file.  Just a simple "cat" that
doesn't take much time to load, and doesn't have to bother with screen 
painting, etc.

I don't know anything about MPW, and I am interested in the above features 
NOT from a programmer's point of view, but from a user's, cause I download
lots of programs and hate swapping disks just to be able to read a note.
I don't have a hard disk, that's pretty clear.  Still, I usually have deep 
levels of directories, like: /downloaded/useful/da/binhexed/pited/doc (sorry
for using the UN*X way of showing directories, but I can't really draw 
six folders inside one another.) Life would be much easier, for me, if I could
just call up a DA and type "cat /downloaded/(...)/doc/note," instead of having
to open six folders and do three disk swappings, or was it five? And having
to put up with being interogated by MacWrite.  Brrr.....

Sure, I *love* the Mac, that's why I'm complaining anyway.  Who said I don't
have complaints about MSDOS and UN*X?


sugih jamin
(schung@cory.berkeley.edu)