info-mac@uw-beaver (12/07/84)
From: ALLEN@BBNF.ARPA I'm probably missing something obvious, but I'll proceed to trot out my ignorance in public anyway. I've got the following problem: I have a file, created on a Tops20 system with Scribe, that I would like to print. It is short enough that printing it on my Mac's printer is a reasonable thing to do. Given that the Macprinter is on my desk and the Tops20 printer is 5 floors down makes it a desirable thing to do. Now I just have to figure out how. My first feeble attempt consists of causing the Tops20 system to type the file at MacTerminal (which I've asked to remember the lines off the screen), selecting and printing. This doesn't work because, being Scribe lineprinter output, there are isolated CRs for overstriking and other control sequences that make a mess on a VT100 screen, which the Mac faithfully reproduces on paper. My next try consists of XMODEMing the file to the Mac (there's another story here, which I won't bore you with), which I succeed in doing, only to find that there's no way that I've been able to discover to print the resulting file. Selecting the file in the Finder and then clicking on PRINT results in a complaint that there is no application available that knows about my file. Consulting local Mac wizards gets me the response that I've got to use some obscure system-level tools (Set File??) to mung file descriptor bits to associate the file with an application that might know how to print it, like MacWrite. Surely this is not in the MacIntosh spirit, nor does it seem to me that what I'm trying to do should be this hard. If I've missed something obvious, break it to me gently; if not, anyone got a bright idea? /Don Allen
info-mac@uw-beaver (12/10/84)
From: decvax!decwrl!sun!ssp@uw-beaver.arpa (Stephen Page)
down the shift key while clicking on both) or by drawing a box around them.
select open from the menu (or Cmd-O)
MacWrite will load the document (if it isn't TOO weird in MacWrite's
point of view.
Use the Find/Change to take out funny chars. If you have trouble
entering certain characters into the dialog box, enter them in the Notepad
then paste them into the Find/Change box (this works for tab chars).
Save as ASCII, unless you want to keep the rulers and stuff.
Hope it works!
=ssp ??? {fortune, amd70, decvax,...}!decwrl!sun!polar!ssp ?? (I think!)
=Stephen Page