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From: hui@joplin.mpr.ca (Michael Hui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Text file madness on the Mac.
Message-ID: <2003@eric.mpr.ca>
Date: 6 Jan 90 17:57:20 GMT
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In article <2001@eric.mpr.ca> hui@joplin.mpr.ca writes:
>In article <37640@apple.Apple.COM> jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
>writes:                 ^^^^^              ^^^^^
>>You display a text file "at the level of the Desktop" (which presumably
>>means "from the Finder") by double-clicking the file. This is a fairly
>>simple procedure, certainly no more difficult than typing "type" and
>>a filename.
>
>What you suggested does not work. I just downloaded a small file using
>Red Ryder 9.4 using Kermit text mode. I double clicked on the file.
>Why don't you try this yourself and see what happens ?



All right. I see the idea now. Yes, very logical and obvious.
BUT: to a first time Mac user, Jeanne's reply would have still been
puzzling, since no where was it mentioned that the file creater string
must be set up to something corresponding to a text editor.

RR 9.4 comes up with the string default to MACA. I suppose that's not MS
Word, since that is the only text editor application I usually have on
line. I will refrain myself from commenting on this whole saga as being
indicative of a good or poor GUI. Let's move on to more interesting
stuff ...