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Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
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Date: 5 Jan 90 23:45:42 GMT
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Reply-To: d6maca@dtek.chalmers.se (Martin Carlberg)
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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>d6maca@dtek.chalmers.se. (Martin Carlberg) writes:
><In article <2702@aecom.yu.edu> werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner) writes:
><>	Download a text file.  Now try to display it. On a PC, use type.
><>On a Mac, you can't. 
><[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.
From: d6maca@dtek.chalmers.se. (Martin Carlberg)
Path: hacke8!d6maca

>These are *not* "textfiles"!! As you say they are WORDPROCESSOR DOCUMENTS.

They can be textfiles too. If I download a file from a Mac or a machine that
supports Mac format, I will always get right icon as long as I have the
application the file was made by. And don't say that people don't have the
right application. We are talking about textfiles and most textfiles I download
are made by this little textapplication that comes with the MacOS (I don't
know that it is called on the US system). If the file is made by a application
not owned by me, I have to use my favorite textapplication and load the file
from it. That is probably faster on a PC if I don't type slow.

><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)

>Also not a textfile. <sigh>

A binhex file is a textfile. I didn't say this clear enough. Also I download
files like this article or other documentation files (textfiles) from many
places and what I said under 2. is true for this too. I'm running Multifinder
and after my textfile is downloaded, the file appears in a background window
(in the finder) with its icon. I do a doubleclick and my texteditor starts
and opens the file. The text is in Monaco 9.

>What he was talking about were such things as capturing a sesion on a BBS, or
>downloading some news articles from the net. Those give ASCII *text*. 

Yes, I know. That is what I was talking about too (under 2.).

>Part of the problem is that people are assuming that what they do is the
>only thing that *anybody* does. This is and always will be wrong.

Yes, that is correct. I'm saying what I do, not what everybody has to do.
When I hear someone say that they can't do this, then if I can do it, I say
that.

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