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From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla)
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Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 20 Dec 89 04:11:20 GMT
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   >2) Deleting a file
   >	DOS	era <name of file>
   >	Mac	<click> ...drag... <kcilc> (thats releasing a press)
   And if you want to delete a file three directories down the tree, but
   want to keep working in the directory you're in, you get to click on
   three folders, then drag the file icon to the trashcan, then click
   back up three times. In DOS, you just specify the pathname:

Bzzt, wrong answer. Yes, you have to open up the three subdirectories.
However, you certainly don't have to close them to resume work in the
current window. This assumes that you make a habit of bad techniques
such as specifying pathnames rather than using CD. Easy way to lose
files accidentally.

And of course, Unix does it better because you don't have to hunt for
the \ key.

   >3) Selecting a word in a document.
   >	DOS	<lots of keys to move> <Ctrl-Alt-Fn-37>
   >	Mac	<clickety click>

   You are picking out a single type of WP
   program and attempting to tar all DOS WP programs by denigrating it
   against the Mac. Straw Man fallacy. Your arguments are invalid.

Oh, really? How many sites are using MSWord or MSWrite? In all my
secretarial work, I have found exactly *one* site that does not use
WordPerfect, which is probably what he was alluding to. (That one site
was a non-profit organization whose PCs were government-granted and
MS-Windows was given as a gift/donation.) And WordPerfect isn't
exactly user-friendly- if you don't have a function key template,
forget it.

It would be foolish to dismiss the most popular PC word processor as a
Straw Man, don't you think?
-- 
Robert Jude Kudla  <kudla@pawl.rpi.edu>

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