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Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
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Date: 4 Jan 90 20:37:21 GMT
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From article <21628@mimsy.umd.edu>, by folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta):
>>>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.

>> The Mac lets you do it any time you want, and it isn't primitive.

> 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.)

You're probably right; he probably meant from the command prompt. Which makes
DAs even more powerful than TYPE. But his point was also that DAs like that
aren't shipped with the OS. TeachText is. So while DAs are a more powerful
concept, you don't get one with a vanilla Mac. Yo do get TeachText. And
MultiFinder, by the way.

Have your terminal create text files of creator 'ttxt' and you can even double
click them.

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

I keep hearing things about DOS 4.01 on '386 machines, but I haven't had the
"privelege" of seeing it.
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