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From: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
Summary: Come on now...I can do it (and so can you)
Message-ID: <1990Jan2.014423.2017@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 2 Jan 90 01:44:23 GMT
References: <1284@marlin.NOSC.MIL> <970@v7fs1.UUCP> <129727@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <2702@aecom.yu.edu>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <2702@aecom.yu.edu> werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner) writes:
>
>	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.

[deleted discussion of awkward ways to view a text file]

>	Yet another reason to hate the Mac.

Either you're exaggerating a bit, or haven't seriously looked at the situation.
There are a number of nice text editors (*not* word processors) available on
the Mac.  There's the widely-available "Edit" program originally distributed
with the MDS assembler, and also with most Mac languages (got mine with Aztec
C several years ago).  It defaults to Monaco-9 when you fire it up and easily
shows a standard 80 column screen.  I've also seen a similar one called QED,
and I'm sure there are others out there.

Probably most handy, though are a variety of desk-accessory editors.  These
work with any Mac and are always available with or without MultiFinder.
MockWrite, MiniWriter and McSink come to mind in this category...

Hey, I find lots of shortcomings with the Mac interface and philosophy (I'm
quite happy hacking away on UNIX systems) but I really think the above-
mentioned programs beat "type" hands down....

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