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From: fry@huma1.HARVARD.EDU (David Fry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Keeper & Finder improvements
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Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 18:26:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  7 18:26:00 1987
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In article <7346@think.UUCP> barmar@godot.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
>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.

Six months ago I started writing an FKEY to simply display a
TEXT file chosen from the Standard File Package.  After one
evening I had it to the point where it worked (usually) from
every application except the Finder, which is where it would
be most useful.  After a week of unsuccessful debugging I
moved on to other projects.

Surely someone with greater skills than me must have thought
of this before.  Why isn't there an FKEY to do this already?
Perhaps we could encourage Andy Hertzfeld to write one while he
was eating dinner or watching David Letterman :-)?  I beg
someone to do this since I'm too busy to pick up the debugging
again.

David Fry				fry@huma1.harvard.EDU
Department of Mathematics		fry@harvma1.bitnet
Harvard University			...!harvard!huma1!fry
Cambridge, MA  02138