🚀 go-pugleaf

A  hearty second to William Howarth's suggestion to separate Mac inquiries
from DOS inquiries.

Patch Dellinger, another happy Mac user

On Mon, 2 Aug 1993, William Howarth wrote:

> Just returned from a one-week absence to find 58 messages, 54 of them from
> the EndNote Users forum. About 40 are from DOS users, the rest Mac [we
> don't write in often because our computers are sooooo easy to use... ;) ]
>
> But this disproportion, and the spectre of a Windows EN+ version rising,
> prompts me to ask if the Forum has ever considered an amicable separation
> into platform sessions (DOS, Windows, Mac, etc.)? Sometimes the issues
> under consideration ARE of a generic order (how to import, how to format
> styles), but many of the problems people raise are very platform-specific,
> having to do with operating systems protocols or hardware-software
> integration.
>
> I suppose there will be lots of reasons offered for maintaining a holistic
> unity, for the same reasons that you permit new users to take up space and
> time with elementary queries. But it's pretty wearing on non-DOS user to
> have to wade through much back-and-forth about "Directory Cee Colon
> backslash" problems, when THAT arcana is the very reason that six years ago
> I happily switched to the Mac.
>
> Do any Mac users out there agree? Or is it better to remain with the main
> forum and our apparent status as a (largely) silent minority?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> William Howarth                       |                      Tel: 609-258-5162
> Dept. of English                      |
> 22 McCosh Hall                        |                      Fax: 609-258-1607
> Princeton University                  |
> Princeton, NJ  08544                  |          howarth@phoenix.princeton.edu
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------