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Subject: Re: Now that the smoke had cleared (Honest Mac/IBM questions)
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Date: 29 Dec 89 17:36:34 GMT
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From article <1284@marlin.NOSC.MIL>, by jbjones@marlin.NOSC.MIL (John B. Jones):
> 1. Activate something out of sight (in a sub-folder).

Double-click on a document "owned" by the application (e.g., a Microsoft Word
document will start MS Word).  To create a new file in a particular folder,
I usually double-click on an already-existing file, close it and open a new
one.  It's quicker than switching to the MS Word directory and back.

> 2. Copy something out of sight to the current or another directory.

If it's out of sight, you can't copy it.  Sorry.

> 3. Redirect the output from one program to another as input; example:
> 	prompt>awk -f fil.awk this | awk -f fix.awk >> that

Don't ask that question.  You'll start another war.  :-)  Impossible, to my
knowledge.

> 4. Write batch files(i.e. is there any highlevel, simple programming
>    feature in the Mac OS?)

The closest thing I've seen is "Macro Maker", a DA which remembers actions
and will "play them back" for you with one or two keystrokes.  There's no
high-level OS language under the Finder.
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