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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Keeper & Finder improvements
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Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 16:33:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  7 16:33:51 1987
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In article <1554@watcgl.waterloo.edu> kdmoen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Doug Moen) writes:
>chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) writes:
>>Well, one thing which I always wanted to see in the Finder was a way to
>>display text files and MacPaint type files.  The Mac is the only computer
>>which I know of that dosen't have a fairly accessible "display this file"
>>type command.

>  I'd rather have a working Juggler than a big, fat finder
>with a built in text editor, and built-in MacPaint.

I don't think he is asking for that.  There is a big difference
between an EDITOR and a DISPLAYER (although on the Mac a simple text
editor is pretty simple, because TextEdit does most of the work).  I
would also like to see a standard way to simply display a text file.
I usually use MockWrite for this, but its 32K limitation often forces
me to use QED.  I would never use MacWrite, as it takes forever to
convert a TEXT file to its format.

A MacPaint displayer would also be nice, but since MacPaint is
unbundled, it would be somewhat strange to include this as part of the
standard Finder.  Perhaps MacPaint should come with a desk accessory
that does this.  In fact, this would probably be a good idea for many
programs: include a limited version of the program as a DA; for
example, a Rolodex application might include a Rolo Lookup DA.

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Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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