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Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
Summary: Opinions not worth a hill of beans!
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Date: 3 Jan 90 03:20:37 GMT
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In a recent article 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.

Without overstating the obvious, you obviously do NOT do a lot of
downloading to the Mac, dispite what you say.. or you are using far less
than the state of the art communications software on the Mac.

  | 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:

[Six totally unneeded steps, only a neophyte would perform, deleted]

  | Yet another reason to hate the Mac.
  | Craig Werner
  | (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go)

If ignorance is bliss, you must be in a continual state of nirvana!

I'm glad this garbage has finally been punted into a newsgroup I do not
read.

--
Stuart Burden
root@caladan.uucp
root@caladan.wa.com