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From: ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: MacWrite II
Message-ID: <707@cf-cm.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 08:04:35 GMT
Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK.
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Can someone (perhaps from Claris ;-)) explain why MWII does not have
the same signature as the original macwrite. This means if you
rteplace MW with MWII you can no longer doubleclick MW files to edit
them. Yes, I know that MWII uses a different file type, but that
doesnt mean the signature had to be changed as well. I find this an
extremely poor decision as far as user interface design goes. It now
means I have to rummage around and start up MWII first before opening
any old MW file.

I also find having manually every time to say whether I want to save
the result in the new format as a converted file pretty tedious.
Surely this could have been handled better with a check box option
Always Convert to MWII Format?

How can I try to persuade people here (read: Secretaries, etc) to move
to MWII when it is doesnt let them double click their old files any
more? And do you think *I* want to convert them all for them one by
one?!

I think these poor decisions will be hitting sales. Remember, not all
Mac users are sophisticated!