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From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
Message-ID: <652@fred.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 90 15:56:14 GMT
References: <2702@aecom.yu.edu> <110@lad.scs.com>
Reply-To: bill@fred.UUCP (Bill Poitras)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <110@lad.scs.com> lad@lad.scs.com (Lawrence A. Deleski) writes:
>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.  
Download this, use this utility, call up this DA, convert the file to this
format... blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.  How about 'type filename | more'. 
Or how about 'more < filename'. Hmmm......  What bulliten board do you have to
goto to get this?  NONE!!!!.  I have installed naked DOS for numberous people,
and when I want to look at an README file for a package that I have never seen
before, (a new spreadsheet for example), type works just fine for me.  Ok, ok,
say it: "type sucks!!!!, my utility/DA has text search ability, page up/down,
scroll sideways, printing, etc. etc."  Well so does LIST.COM.  When I run 
the Norton Commander, all I have to do is double click on a .TXT .ME .1ST or 
a .<nothing> and LIST gets called up.  I can then configure the colors as I want
them, and hit alt-C to save my configuration.  

	My point is yes, type is very primitive way to read file text files, but you
can do it at any time you want from DOS.  If you want to get fancier, well do
what Mac users have to do to read a text file at all in the first place, get 
a nice utility from you favorite BBS.  Don't compare a Mac to a PC when talking
about stupid, fast, simple, convinient tasks; as Ivan Drago said to Apollo Creed
in Rocky IV: "You will lose!". Stick to what you are good at: consistent user
interface, good graphics, and virtual monitors.  The Mac is not better than
PC in every thing, its just better some things. 

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