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Article #44956Re: How to improve the Mac (was Re: Text file madness on the Mac.)
From: Mike Liveright
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1990 18:57
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1990 18:57
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Agreed, we users can improve the Mac by sugesting that APPLE include software within their system that helps us. In this case, that of "reading" and editing TEXT files, I suggest another way, assuming that one is willing to purchase an add on product, "HANDOFF", (214) 727-2329 , to make this convienient is to: 1) Get a text editor, Ill call it TED, PD if needed, or consider using which ever editor you like, as we have been reminded, most/all mac editors will read and write text. 2) Active "HANDOFF", and then once, every time a new applications's TEXT only file is double clicked, tell HANDOFF that it should be read by the text editor, TED. From that time all such documents will be re-directed to the "TED". p.s. I have suggested that the authors make it possible to have all files of a type, "TEXT" to be re-directed to a program if the file's application doesnt exist, and they are "considering" it. Disclamer: I am not associated with anyone relevant and just am a user.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ames!zodiac!spark!mliverig From: mliverig@Verity.COM (Mike Liveright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: How to improve the Mac (was Re: Text file madness on the Mac.) Keywords: HANDOFF EDIT TEXT Message-ID: <10309@zodiac.ADS.COM> Date: 7 Jan 90 18:57:43 GMT References: <2706@aecom.yu.edu> <5900@ncar.ucar.edu> <1998@eric.mpr.ca> <5915@ncar.ucar.edu> <8315@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> <6472@sun.acs.udel.edu> Sender: news@zodiac.ADS.COM Reply-To: mliverig@spark.UUCP (Mike Liveright) Distribution: na Organization: Verity, Inc., Mtn. View, CA 94043, (415) 960-7600 Lines: 20