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- From: jules@kbsw1 (Jules Dubois)
- Subject: Re: Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.193814.1761@kbsw1>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:38:14 GMT
- Reply-To: jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu
- References: <1992Dec7.163815.5297@cs.utwente.nl> <1992Dec9.015009.4200@global.hacktic.nl> <1992Dec10.034521.14248@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec10.034521.14248@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) writes:
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- >MPW provides all the CLI I ever want on the Mac, but I still almost never use
- >it. The reason Windows users keep the DOS Prompt at hand is that Windows is
- >painful to use in many areas. One example of this is deleting locked files.
- >On the Mac, you drag files to the trash, hit empty trash, are warned that
- >some files are locked, and select empty trash again, this time with option
- >held down. Windows does not to my knowledge provide any such simple tool.
- >How about doing recursive deletes (rm -R *.*): on the Mac, you hit Select-
- >All and drag to the trash, and empty it. If you wanted to delete every
- >file under a particular directory, drag it to the trash if you are on a Mac.
- >Windows does not have SIMPLE things like this implemented in any usable
- >fashion, at least not one that I know. How about .....? Windows is simply
- >to painful to use for many things.
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- This drivel does not involve IBM hardware. Please stop cross-posting.
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