Re: A+/InCider article: ACK!

[hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma)]

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??" 

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