Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:41181 comp.sys.mac:45451
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!mimsy!tove.umd.edu!folta
From: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
Summary: Does 'type' really work at "any time"?
Message-ID: <21628@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 90 15:16:23 GMT
References: <652@fred.UUCP> <3466@hub.UUCP>
Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
Reply-To: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
Distribution: usa
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Lines: 18

"" 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.
"
"Hmmm. The Mac lets you do it any time you want, and it isn't primitive.
"To quote a recent article, "Hmmm......"

I think you missed a point.  When he says "any time you want from DOS", I
think he means "any time you want from the DOS prompt."  Using a DA, a Mac
user can literally view a file at any time, even while running in another
program.  (Under MultiFinder, you can run teachtext simultaneously with another
application, but a DA is faster for ASCII-only files.)

(Of course, I am very DOS-ignorant, so maybe DOS 4.0 allows a MultiFinder-like
multi-tasking ability.)
--


Wayne Folta          (folta@cs.umd.edu  128.8.128.8)