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From: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Now that the smoke had cleared (Honest Mac/IBM questions)
Message-ID: <970@v7fs1.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 89 00:39:57 GMT
References: <1284@marlin.NOSC.MIL>
Reply-To: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Organization: Video 7 + G2 = Headland Technology
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In article <1284@marlin.NOSC.MIL> jbjones@marlin.nosc.mil.UUCP (John B. Jones) writes:
>All this Mac/IBM blood-letting reminds me of a couple of questions I had
>about the Mac interface.  With a mac, how do you

>1. Activate something out of sight (in a sub-folder).
>2. Copy something out of sight to the current or another directory.
>3. Redirect the output from one program to another as input; example:
>      prompt>awk -f fil.awk this | awk -f fix.awk >> that
>4. Write batch files(i.e. is there any highlevel, simple programming
>   feature in the Mac OS?)

I don't think you can do *any* of these things on the Mac.  At least,
I've never found one, and the MacExperts I ask tend to respond along
the lines of "Why on earth would you ever want to ..." with the
implication that there's something intrinsigly Evil about desiring
Things That Users Are Not Supposed To Do.  I suspect that the fact that
you ask about them is a pretty good indication that you'll find the Mac
OS to be as frustrating and confining a strait-jacket as I do.

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Mike Van Pelt                     Windows + Icons + Mouse
Headland Technology/Video 7       + Pointer == WIMP.
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