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From: kenk@tellab5.TELLABS.COM (Ken Konecki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
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Date: 2 Jan 90 18:31:02 GMT
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In article <2702@aecom.yu.edu> werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner) writes:
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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. 

Most communications software allow you to set the creator of a text
file that has been downloaded - mine is set to Write Now. I double
click on the new file and voila, I can view it and edit it.

On a DOS machine, using type only gets you the last screen's worth of
the file, you have to pipe it through more or use one of the many text
viewing programs to view the file in its entirety.

Cheers,
    -Ken K
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