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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Now that the smoke had cleared (Honest Mac/IBM questions)
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Date: 29 Dec 89 21:39:35 GMT
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In article <129727@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> acm@sun.UUCP (Andrew MacRae) writes:
>In article <970@v7fs1.UUCP> mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
>>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?)
>>
>
>You sound like the Scottish farmer asking the city dweller how many 
>bales of hay his Jaguar can carry, then not understanding why anyone
>would want a vehicle that can't carry hay.  The basic paradigms (don't
>you love that word?) of the two operating systems are so different
>it simply doesn't make sense to ask the questions you are asking.

This last response (the one with the single >) is off base. All those
are perfectly normal thing sto want to do. They are all EXTREMELY
useful things to do. You see, you, ( MacRae) are giving the original
questioner the same old Mac party line - "DO IT THE Mac WAY - why
on earth would you want to do it otherwise". Of course it makes
sense to ask those questions! The things he wants to do are
**more powerful** constructs than exist in the Mac interface.

Incidentally, I presume that a Jaguar (at least most of the 
present models) will carry a bale of hay. I am quite sure that
my Mazda RX7 and my friends' Porsche 928 will each carry exactly
one bale of hay. Why would I want to put a bale of hay in my car?
Why as bedding for my guinea pigs, of course!

Doug McDonald