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From: werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
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Date: 1 Jan 90 20:42:13 GMT
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	I do this a lot.
	Download a text file.  Now try to display it. On a PC, use type.
On a Mac, you can't. 
	
	A downloaded text file has no associated application.  If you
double click it, it gives you an error message.

	Now you can see the file.  In Multi-finder this is especially
trivial.  You keep a copy of your favorite word processor around, in
background, and:
	1. Switch to the word-processor.
	2. Go to the file menu, choose open
	3. Select the file. (Now at this point, you have to remember what
it was actually called, not just where it was on the desktop.)
	
	4. You're there, that is in most cases.  I find that a lot of
text files are tabbed, and our word processor's default is Times-Roman,
so:
	4a. Select the entire text
	5. Go to the font menu, and select Courier.  This usually causes
wrapping of some sort, so
	5a. Lower the point size.
	6. Now, you're there.

	(This can be partially made into a macro, but the font/ps 
conversion step in much slower within the macro, than outside. 
I don't know why.)

	Yet another reason to hate the Mac.
-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
                 "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."