Re: WOOHOO! My IIgs is now networked to my W2K PC!!!!

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Greg Buchner wrote:

> With the
>right contextual menu add-on installed, I can even open jpegs in 
>several programs just by control-clicking on them and selecting the 
>correct program from a list.
>
>You may find the Mac too 'helpful', but it also helps you open them up
>in any program you want.

And in Windows, a right-click/Send To.../ opens a file in any app
you put in the Send To directory--very similar capability.

I haven't used MacOS much beyond 7.x, but recall that many of
my attempts to download .jpg's resulted in "un-typed" documents,
and dropping them on a JPG viewer didn't do much good.  Double
clicking them just got me a TeachText dialog, and nothing useful.

(On a PC, I simply rename them ".jpg" and all is well--without any
alteration to the time-date stamp.)

Digital Photography has its own pervasive data standards, apart
from any particular applications, and this is clearly not the model
that the Mac interface, or any pure type-association interface,
was intended to facilitate.  Drag-and-drop on an application icon
is problematic with 50-100 applications, most of which are "hiding"
behind in-use windows.

-michael

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