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From: jjw7384@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Jeff Wasilko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
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Date: 2 Jan 90 16:47:38 GMT
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Reply-To: jjw7384@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Jeff Wasilko)
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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.

ZTerm has the option to give a default creator file downloaded text
files (i.e. MACA for MacWrite or MSWD for Word). 
I'm sure that other term emultors have this option, too.

>[....]
>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.
>
If you do this alot, get ApFont, a shareware cdev that will change the 
default font for the system. This way, your word processor will by
default open with Courier.

Jeff



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