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From: freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 23 Dec 89 11:50:29 GMT
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 truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) writes:
 >jsp@key.COM (James Preston) writes:
 >>But take another look at a typical
 >>Mac paint program.  Tell me that you knew immediately--without reading any
 >>documention and without any help from other mac users and without having
 >>seen any usage of any similar program before--that the little tipping can 
 >>with the stuff pouring out of it was used to fill an area with a pattern.
 >>Tell me that replacing that cute little picture with the words "fill area" 
 >>wouldn't be more straightforward.
 >
 >Your example was not the best, but I get the point. But, referring to
 >your example, I NEVER saw ANY manual for MacPaint EVER.

*I* did!  It is in the "Goodies" menu, under the item "Introduction".
At the left hand side of the paint bucket there is the explanation:

	area fill ->

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