Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!rutgers!bpa!tci!kempf From: kempf@tci.bell-atl.com (Cory Kempf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re^2: Something else you can't do on the Mac Message-ID: <519@tci.bell-atl.com> Date: 2 Jan 90 18:11:22 GMT References: <1284@marlin.NOSC.MIL> <970@v7fs1.UUCP> <129727@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <2702@aecom.yu.edu> Organization: Technology Concepts, Inc. Sudbury Mass. Lines: 29 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. That is true... the mac doesn't normally have a command line interface. If you want one, it is available. Say Em-Pee-Double-you. Say "Open " > Now you can see the file. In Multi-finder this is especially >trivial. [increadibly silly description of someone using a full-blown word processor as a text editor deleted] Try opening up any text editor desk accessory (Sigma-Edit, MacSync, etc). Open the file. Alternatively, have MPW in the background. Or uEmacs. If you are going to post examples to "Prove" that a machine with a 16 bit processor, a 640kB limit on RAM and a 32MB disk size limit is better than a system with a 32 bit processor, capable of fully using 32 MB of RAM, and a 4GB disk size limit, at least try to come up with reasonable examples. +C -- Cory Kempf Technology Concepts phone: (508) 443-7311 x341 uucp: {anywhere}!uunet!tci!kempf, kempf@tci.bell-atl.com DISCLAIMER: TCI is not responsible for my opinions, nor I for theirs