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From: jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Looking for MacIntosh Tricks
Summary: FYI* the book:  "The MacIntosh Bible" covers some of these concerns
Message-ID: <1113@atux01.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 89 21:24:55 GMT
References: <812@ethz.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T CSEd/CET, Piscataway, N.J.
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In article <812@ethz.UUCP>, zeller@ethz.UUCP (Lukas Zeller) writes:
> I am using my Mac almost every day for a year now, but there are still
> some (many?) features hidden in the machine. I think primarily of tricks one
> can do with the modifier keys, tiny indicators on the screen or things like
> the check monitor sounds (see "...Mac that sings" articles). Most probably
> many of them are mentioned *somewhere* in the technical documentation, but the
> information is scattered over many thousand pages. Maybe there are even
> undocumented tricks that could be useful in some situations.
> 
> The following four examples might show you what kind of information I'm
> looking for more accurately:
> 
> - Command-Option-Doubleclicking a file causes the file to be launched
>   like an application. It depends on the file this trick is applied to (some
>   crash, some return an error) but you can e.g. start MultiFinder from the
>   normal Finder this way without restarting the system.

For those of you who don't know, there IS a book out on the market (at least
it is here in the U.S.) called:  "The MacIntosh Bible" that contains a lot of
the above little tricks.  Some of the tricks are Mac general, others are
program specific.  The book is about $25.  I will try to post tomorrow the
publisher and authors.

> If you have suggestions about how you'd like to see the results of this
> inquiry, please let me know. At the moment I think of a summary in "quick
> reference card" style. I'll post it as plain text but if there is enough
> interest I might send a MS-Word or MacWrite document to comp.binaries.mac
> as well. But now it's up to *you* to send me information to summarize...

The above NET compilation of such Mac tricks could be useful for those of us
who may not have access to the above book, BUT if you can't download stuff from
the net (like I seem to be unable to do) you may want to call your local
bookstore and see if THEY have the "MacIntosh Bible" (if not, maybe they can
special order it for you).

Please understand, I do not mean to squash this discussion, but I did want to
inform those of you interested in, or in need of, this type of Mac info, that
a source DOES exist.


						Jim Collymore

FYI means:  For Your Information (a commonly used business term)