Re: To All of You Netscape Users

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

In reply to Steve Cohen's message sent 4/16/98 5:44 AM:

>Aah, but they're CHANGING!  Yes folks, "I'm here to tell ya, Win32 (NT and 
>9x)
>have support for UNC paths  (Universal Naming Convention)!
>
>Yes, that means NAMES!  Wow, only what, 5, 10 years after the competition had
>it, Microsoft has it too.

As one of this list's part time Macintosh historians, I must state for 
the record that volume names have been integrated into the Mac 
architecture for 14 years. I can still recall the first time I stuck a 
disc into a Mac floppy drive and saw it appear instantly on the desktop, 
with a volume name =I could change simply by clicking on it and typing=! 
My eyes nearly popped out.

I had a related Windows Moment the other day. I was looking over the 
shoulders of two gents from a public agency, who were trying to package 
some data on a floppy for me. All we needed to do was unpack an .exe 
file, which I can't use on the Mac, into a .zip file, which I can. This 
simple operation was accompanied by no small degree of grunting and 
muttering on the part of the staffers, mainly because Windows Explorer 
makes it so darned difficult to show the contents of two disks side by 
side. When I wondered out loud at this deficiency, one of the staffers 
remarked, "of course you can, you just need to start another session."

Another session? What is this, a psychiatric examination? In a way, yes...

BTW, I have no doubt that when I left this office, the two staffers 
grumbled to each other about those bloody Mac users and their bloody 
special requirements...

</partisan remarks>

   Mitch Stone
   Editor, Boycott Microsoft
   http://www.vcnet.com/bms 
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