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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
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Date: 4 Jan 90 06:41:38 GMT
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d6maca@dtek.chalmers.se. (Martin Carlberg) writes:

<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.
<[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.

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

<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>

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*. 

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.
Me, I don't do any of the things the Mac is reportedly good at. The few
that I might want to do in the future aren't *nearly* enough to invest
*double* the amount I have currently invested in my PC system for something
that won't suit *my* needs as well. If the Mac works best for you, fine
just don't insist that it "must" be better for me too!
-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
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