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- From: hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma)
- Subject: Re: A+/InCider article: ACK!
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 05:02:04 GMT
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- Jim Wong writes
- > In article <uerics.721965155@mcl> uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
- writes:
-
- > I have to disagree here. My Mac recognizes ProDOS and MS-DOS disks
- > automatically, and mounts them on the desktop. I can even map MS-DOS
- > extensions to particular applications, so I can open an application
- > and document simultaneously by double-clicking on the application.
-
- Well, look at how many years it took for the mac to get this feature! I
- mean, its taken nearly 9 years for MS-DOS/ProDOS disks to be mounted on the
- desktop and treated like actual disks. The Mac OS with the file manager tags
- just isn't as conveient for adding FSTS as GS/OS's FST manager is. Its just
- another kludge to Mac's OS.
-
- > >o More intuitive Finder (IMHO. For example, there are many more keyboard
- > >equivalents, and these are more logical in many ways)
- >
- > Yes. Empty Trash, at least. Maybe they don't want to make it too easy
- > to accidentally delete something. The equivalent for "Put Away", command-y,
- > is physically very close to command-t. On the GS side, though, having
- > "Get Info" in the Special menu always seemed weird to me, even though
- > techinically you can "Get Info" on objects that aren't files.
-
- Well, maybe it shouldn't be in the file menu like the mac then?? :)
-
- > >The Mac is a pretty good machine, but it could certainly learn a few
- > >things from the IIGS (and the other IIs, for that matter).
- >
- > Of course. I still wsh the GS Finder wouldn't be unable to find
- > the application that belongs to a given document just because the program's
- > filename has changed.
-
- Well, of course, I have always find it annoying when the Mac can't find
- an application either when you put a disk with a document in, double click it
- and the Mac spits out "application not found or busy" error while the damn
- thing is installed on the Mac's HD! Thats even more annoying because you can't
- FIX it like you can with System 6. It just gives "Applcation not found. Would
- you like to find it??"
-
- | Hal Bouma | Send mail to: HBouma@Macalstr.edu |
- | Macalester College, St. Paul, MN. | and HBouma@Macalstr.Bitnet |
- \ Things that make you go Hmmm: System 6, GNO, DreamGrafix, SoundMeister /
- \ Coming sometime this decade for the //GS : NBA! (GNO compatible too!) /
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