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In article <2706@aecom.yu.edu> werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner) writes:
>         This started when I mentioned the simple fact given a text file
> (say from a download) you can't display its contents at the level of the
> Desktop.
>         You can't.
>         True, you can display it. And I do it all the time.  It involves
> a 7 step sequence using software I have readily available, and it is more
> complex than Unix 'more' or even a PC's 'type.'

It is true that you can't display a TEXT file from the Desktop, using 
today's Finder.  The Finder is just a program and could be replaced with a 
program that has its own facilities for displaying TEXT files, or knows 
that you want to use TeachText (or MPW, or whatever) for TEXT files.  This 
is a limitation of the present Finder, not of the Mac itself or the system 
software.

As for a 7-step sequence, I don't know why you have to do that many steps. 
 Launching TeachText and using it to open the file is a lot fewer steps 
than that, and it is certainly not more complex than "more" or "type."

David Casseres

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