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Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
Summary: Unless you are half-way familiar with it
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Date: 4 Jan 90 14:34:54 GMT
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Reply-To: lriggins@galaxy.afit.af.mil (L. Maurice Riggins)
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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.
>
	(A crude work-around deleted)

>	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
>              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
>                 "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."

Some Mac telecomm applications let you assign a "CREATOR" value to text
files, which does associate a given application with it.

Also, there are a multitude of Desk Accessory text editors which will let
you open and edit the file while you are still in the telecomm program.
Multifinder is not needed.  Try "typing" the DOS text file while still
in your DOS telecomm program.

Take it from a reformed Big Blue hacker who still has to use MeSsyDOS at
work, the more you know both systems, the better off you are choosing the
right tool for the job.




Maurice          lriggins@blackbird.afit.af.mil (129.92.1.2)