At 10:15 AM 06/02/98 +0200, you wrote:
>a mac is intuitive and versatile, thanks to stuff like resource forks, but
>it won't choke on files that lack resourceforks, it will just do what most
>computers do in that case: go bleep in an unintelligable way, which means
>that you'll have to do a little thinking for yourself
>(eg: this is a html-file, so i won't want to open it in photoshop: let's try
>a text-editor)
Koen, thanks for the background, and thanks to everyone who responded, I
really got something going with this topic ;-)
Since I have 15 years of nasty PC habits <G>, it won't be a big deal for me
to do as you describe: open files transferred from my PC to a Mac by
opening them in the app instead of double-clicking on them in a folder, as
that's the way I normally operate. Even though in Win95 you can open files
directly from the Explorer (file manager window) I never do, since old
Windows didn't work that way.
I'm sure glad that the Mac OS8.1 now interprets Win95 "alias" long file
names correctly: that was going to be a big problem for me if it didn't.
Now, if Windoze would just get smarter so that when Mac users send me a
file name (with of course no DOS extension) Windoze could tell me what the
heck the file type is.
But once I get my new Mac, I'm not going to have to deal with these
annoyances...
Barry <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Web Design & Development�- Online Marketing <http://www.ToTheWeb.com>
In a world without walls or fences, what use do we have for windows or
gates?
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