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From: d6maca@dtek.chalmers.se. (Martin Carlberg)
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Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
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Date: 2 Jan 90 17:42:14 GMT
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In article <2702@aecom.yu.edu> 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.
[Deleted stuff about Craig describing that he has to change font and size on
the document etc....]

Have you ever tried it on a Mac? I do this a lot too and there are not as
painfull as you describe it. My textfiles are in two categories: 1. A 
WriteNow (or other wordprocessor) document downloaded by XModem/MacBinary or
some equivalent protocol. When it is downloaded it has the right icon and I
only have to dubble-click it to check it out. All fonts and sizes etc. are
as they should be. No problems at all. 2. A binhex file from the net. Now I
have a nice terminal emulator that set a default application on textfiles,
but if I didn't have that I should start Stuffit by hand to binhex and unstuffit
the file. If I had to check it out first I should start an editor (I have one
in the Applemenu) instead of a wordprocessor. It's faster and you don't have
to change fonts and sizes or if you must use a wordprocessor, use one that can
setup default font and size on new files (most wordprocessors can do this)

>	Yet another reason to hate the Mac.
I should hate the Mac too if I have to go thru all that you describe, but I
do love It.

- Martin Carlberg
- Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden