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chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) writes:
>Well, one thing which I always wanted to see in the Finder was a way to
>display text files and MacPaint type files.  The Mac is the only computer
>which I know of that dosen't have a fairly accessible "display this file"
>type command.

What you *want* is to be able to double click on a document, and have
a window pop up that shows you its contents, regardless of the type
of the document.  The finder almost does this now; the problems are
that it is very slow, and that opening a document kicks you out of the
finder; you can't flip between the open document and a folder window the
same way you can flip between two windows.

The speed problem is going away with faster hardware and better software.
The pre-emption problem is supposedly going to be dealt with by Servant
and Juggler.  I'd rather have a working Juggler than a big, fat finder
with a built in text editor, and built-in MacPaint.

>Does anyone still remember Keeper by Hertzfield?  Although it
>didn't work with switcher it allowed you to return to quit to the desktop in
>about 1-2 seconds.

I still use Keeper.  It works fine even with System 4.0/Finder 5.4 on a Mac+.
There is still a compatibility problem with Switcher, though.
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