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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 23 Dec 89 05:28:42 GMT
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Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <629@hepburn.UUCP> jerry@hepburn.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>In article <1160@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) writes:
>> I can double-click on a document which opens the application and opens
>> the document ready for whatever processing the application does. 

>Why do all the articles from Mac users sound like they were posted
>in 1984?

More to the point, why must I always use the application I created the
document with when I want to do something to the document? For
example, on my PC using Logitech's Point editor and LaserGo's GoScript
PostScript interpreter, I can create a PostScript file that I will be
including as a graphic in MS Word and test its appearance:

	pt <filename>
	gs <filename>
	(repeat as necessary to get the output correct)

And with CED, the repeat consists of <uparrow><uparrow><return> (to
get back into Point) and <dnarrow> (to run GoScript).

If I double-click on the document with the Mac interface, I'll always
wind up in the text editor. There must be some way to drag a file into
an application other than the one the file was created in, but it's
certainly not going to be as convenient as it is on the PC. The
double-click 'launch the application with this file' is only a
timesaver when you're never going to use the file with any other
application.


 Sean Malloy                                   | ". . . They always have an air
 Navy Personnel Research & Development Center  | of cheap melodrama about them."
 San Diego, CA 92152-6800                      | "You will find, my dear, that
 malloy@nprdc.navy.mil                         | _true_ melodrama _never_ comes
                                               | cheap."