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From: lad@lad.scs.com (Lawrence A. Deleski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
Message-ID: <110@lad.scs.com>
Date: 2 Jan 90 14:19:05 GMT
References: <2702@aecom.yu.edu>
Organization: Silicon Compiler Systems / Warren, NJ
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From article <2702@aecom.yu.edu>, by werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner):
> 	Download a text file.  Now try to display it. On a PC, use type.
> On a Mac, you can't. 

Oh?  Since when?  Keep a copy of Edit around, (available from Apple or any
reasonably repuatble BBS) and double-click on the DL'ed text file.  It'll
appear on the screen within seconds, formatting information intact (tabs,
etc.) and in Monaco 9, a very readable font.

Using type ion a PC makes you fiddle with CNTL-S and CNTL-Q so you can read
the file.  
> 	
> 	A downloaded text file has no associated application.  If you
> double click it, it gives you an error message.

Wrong.  Any downloaded text file has the file type TEXT, which *any* Mac
Word Processor can read.  Furthermore, most terminal programs (Red Ryder,
Microphone, and many others) allow you to set the Creator and file type of
downloaded text file automatically upon downloading, allowing you to 
double-click directly into that application from teh Finder ort
Multi-Finder.

> 	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.

[section on how not to read a Mac text file deleted]

> 	6. Now, you're there.

Wrong again, see above.

> 	Yet another reason to hate the Mac.

Yet another reason to hate an IBM'er who hasn't the foggiest idea what he's
talking about when it comes to *anything* Macintosh.
> -- 
> 	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
> 	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Hey Craig, it may be a good idea to spend a little of that 'to go' time
reading about the Mac.



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