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From: acm@grendal.Sun.COM (Andrew MacRae)
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Subject: Re: Now that the smoke had cleared (Honest Mac/IBM questions)
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Date: 29 Dec 89 22:58:51 GMT
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In article <1989Dec29.213935.1228@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
>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.

If those things are *so* useful even in the Mac world, how come people
using the Macs don't miss them?  You see, you have fallen into the same
trap you yourself describe, because you find those things useful in the
MS-DOS world, you *assume* that they are useful in *all* worlds.  Having
programmed extensivly under many different paradigms, I assure you that
there are quite a few computer environments where those actions,
expressed as they were, simple do not make any sense.