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Article #586Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
From: Bryan Wu
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 06:44
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 06:44
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In <3vt4ug$951@blackice.winternet.com> jdege@winternet.com (Jeff Dege) writes: >On 02 Aug 1995 09:35:24 GMT, Dave Hwang (martus@mit.edu) wrote: >: How do you print on a Mac, outside of an application? > You don't. There is no user-level access to the printer. If you >want something printed, you have to open up an application, then use >its facilities to send it to the printer. If you have a plain text file >you want printed, you have to open the text file in a text editor and >select print from the menu. No. Hightlight non-homogeneous files in the Finder and select "print" from the File menu, and the mac will print all of them for you. > It's yet another example of how the Mac paradigm of a-document-is- >produced-by-an-application gets in the way when you want to do even the >simplest things. Doesn't get in the way because you didn't know the "print" command existed in the finder.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.mathworks.com!panix!not-for-mail From: bwu@panix.com (Bryan Wu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?] Date: 6 Aug 1995 02:44:46 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Message-ID: <401ocu$c6n@panix.com> References: <3uodl4$359@decaxp.harvard.edu> <ericb.397.3017BA4F@psu.edu> <3vt4ug$951@blackice.winternet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com