NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/sys/mac/apps/17416

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From: [e-mail] (JimG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Reading Text Files
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 19 Nov 92 12:08:49 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
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    IN ARTICLE <[e-mail]>,
        [e-mail] (Peter   J Hill) WRITES:
> An easy way to read text files when you do not know what the creator is
> (without fooling with resEDIT is to open the file in WORD.  [...]

    ... and an easy way to crack a nut is to take one sledgehammer ... :-)

    Apart from the obvious choice of TeachText (although its 32k,
    one-file-at-a-time limits are rather a bind), I would suggest that a
    better option would be the excellent Freeware text editor BBEdit.
    Shareware programs McSink and EditII would do just as well, and there
    are numerous others around, all a lot cheaper than Word (which means you
    could probably afford to buy one yourself, rather than borrowing someone
    else's copy of Word, as PJH suggests, which doesn't sound particularly
    convenient to me). I use Vantage myself (the commercial version of
    McSink) - considerably cheaper and quicker than Word.

    Remember, the creator is fairly irrelevant; the only restriction that
    imposes is that you can't double-click on the document to open it
    (although there are utilities which will allow you to get around that by
    defining alternative applications for specified types); if you don't
    have the creating application all that means is that you use the
    editor's Open File dialogue to open the file - it doesn't prevent you
    opening it.
--
    Another Fine Product from <[e-mail]> {JimG : Hatfield, England}