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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: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:14:30 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- Stephen L. Hood writes
- > I just picked up a copy of the December 1992 issue of "A+/InCider", and I
- > am agast.
- >
- > The "Bridging the Gap" column, written by Greg Keizer, focuses this month
- > on the "Gappie" awards, A+/InCider's awards for products that demonstrate
- > the best or worst in Apple/Mac connectivity.
- >
- > The first award was for "Best Technical Performance: GS", and went to
- > "Pointless", because, "not only does Pointless let you use TrueType on the
- > IIGS, but with a little help from you, it can move Mac, even Windows,
- > TrueType fonts to the GS." It is blatantly untrue that Pointless can
- > interpret "Windows" format TrueType fonts. Such action requires the use
- > of either Mac or DOS applications to convert between the Windows and Mac TT
- > formats.
-
- Well, unless he mentioned that you can do it with just a GS alone
- doesn't mean that its untrue. Its not that hard to run down an Mac/IBM to
- convert some fonts if you really need to. And its not that hard to run a
- IBM->Mac font conversion program.
-
-
- > Certainly, I would welcome the addition of aliasing and shared folders.
- > But what of System 7? It snagged the "Best Technical Performance: Mac"
- > award, mostly because of its shared folder features.
-
- > I personally want nothing more of the Mac OS than aliasing. The scrolling
- > thumbs on the Mac do not resize according to the size of the document,
- > creating a very non-intuitive interface. Folding sharing on the IIGS
- > would be impractical -- how many schools use GS/OS anyway?
-
- Well, yes, it was a grave mistake to overlook the HFS FST, its one of
- GS/OS most underrated features, But I think Mr. Kreizer is overlooking one
- major delima. Aliasing and shared folders really only benifits users who access
- a device over a network. And thats the main reason why Apple put them in System
- 7. However, since the GS cannot be a fileserver, the need for it is a moot
- point, because using Appleshare gives it to the GS user anyways. Now if he
- would have made a point about making the GS not being able to be a file server,
- I would have found that argument much more acceptable. But just whining about
- features which aren't really appropiate for the current GS configuration is
- lame.
-
- | 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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