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Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
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Date: 4 Jan 90 04:13:47 GMT
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From article <652@fred.UUCP>, by bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras):
> Download this, use this utility, call up this DA, convert the file to this
> format... blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.  How about 'type filename | more'. 
> Or how about 'more < filename'. Hmmm......  What bulliten board do you have to
> goto to get this?  NONE!!!!.

Same with the Mac. Use TeachText. Comes with every copy of the Mac System
disks. Free. With the OS. Without downloading. Without converting formats.
Without using utilities. (And your crack about calling up DA's is silly;
you're doing the same thing by using TYPE _or_ MORE under DOS.) TeachText
will even let you look at embedded graphics in files that are otherwise TEXT,
and EVERYbody can do it with the OS right out of the box.

> 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......"

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