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Article #44417Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
From: Freek Wiedijk
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1989 11:50
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1989 11:50
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truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) writes: >jsp@key.COM (James Preston) writes: >>But take another look at a typical >>Mac paint program. Tell me that you knew immediately--without reading any >>documention and without any help from other mac users and without having >>seen any usage of any similar program before--that the little tipping can >>with the stuff pouring out of it was used to fill an area with a pattern. >>Tell me that replacing that cute little picture with the words "fill area" >>wouldn't be more straightforward. > >Your example was not the best, but I get the point. But, referring to >your example, I NEVER saw ANY manual for MacPaint EVER. *I* did! It is in the "Goodies" menu, under the item "Introduction". At the left hand side of the paint bucket there is the explanation: area fill -> -- Freek "the Pistol Major" Wiedijk Path: uunet!fwi.uva.nl!freek #P:+/ = #+/P?*+/ = i<<*+/P?*+/ = +/i<<**P?*+/ = +/(i<<*P?)*+/ = +/+/(i<<*P?)**
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!fwi.uva.nl!mel!freek From: freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!! Message-ID: <350@fwi.uva.nl> Date: 23 Dec 89 11:50:29 GMT References: <33269@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <10673@encore.Encore.COM> <2676@aecom.yu.edu> <994@biar.UUCP> <1328@key.COM> <2590444E.22947@paris.ics.uci.edu> Sender: news@fwi.uva.nl Reply-To: freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk) Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam Lines: 22 X-Dragon: Orm Embar