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From: eric@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Eric Fielding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: More on "improving" Finder
Message-ID: <1927@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 17:19:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.1927
Posted: Fri Aug  7 17:19:57 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 05:49:07 EDT
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Reply-To: eric@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Eric Fielding)
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Organization: Dept. Geol. Sci., Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Summary: throw away MacWrite

In article <3220@zen.berkeley.edu> schung@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>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.  ....cause I download
>lots of programs and hate swapping disks just to be able to read a note.
>sugih jamin

The solution I use is to have a small, dumb text editor on the same floppy
as my terminal program (one was posted a few weeks ago called Public
Domain Editor, I think).  There is also a small application called "Showpaint"
that will quickly display MacPaint documents that was posted a few months
ago.  Dumb editors are generally orders of magnitude faster than MacWrite
for reading plain text files and do not ask any stupid questions, and there
are many that are public domain.

>I don't have a hard disk, that's pretty clear.  Still, I usually have deep 
I don't either ;-(


			++Eric Fielding

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