leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (02/28/88)
nick@ccicpg.UUCP(Nick Crossley) writes in comp.sys.mac >In article <2930@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes: >>In article <42125@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >>>On to others: presentation packages. Who cares? This is a market in search >>>of a reason, a great hype with little substance. Powerpoint does some nice >>>things, but how many people REALLY need something that can't be done in >>>their Word Processor? Seriously, now.... >> >>Actually, Chuq, there is a *BIG* demand for these things, if several big >>corporations in the Seattle dBUG group are any measure. These guys just >I agree with Jeff. I, and my wife, prepare presentations and lecture slides >and handouts frequently. We tend to use a mixture of MacWrite, MacDraw, >MacPaint, More,... (particularly the last - the bullet charts are designed >specifically for this use, and are excellent). I haven't yet looked at >PowerPoint, but if it could do with one program everything I can do with all >the others, I would certainly buy it. > In that case Nick, I would suggest waiting a few months and I think that all of your requirements (and more) will be answered by a new package due soon. Sorry but that's all I'm saying..... >>Utilities: ... >To my mind, all such DA's and Finder replacements are rendered obsolete by >MultiFinder, running your desired application(s), Finder and MPW. Finder is >there to do any standard stuff with the desktop, etc., and to drag things >to the required positions and sizes, and the MPW shell provides all required >utilities and commands to fiddle with files with power near that of Unix >and a good shell. It even has built-in help (the Commando facility). My own >system has Finder, MPW and the Alarm Clock as a start-up set. (So I don't need >a clock in the menu bar; I have found such utilities have caused crashes). Assuming that person has enough memory to run this configuation, then yes, this a very powerful complete set of tools, but for most people this is not possible and more often the not the standard user who is using MF will have the Finder to work with, but if you are not running under MF then things such as DiskTop and DiskTools ][ (My personal favorite!!) are neccessity!!!! +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ + + Any thing I say may be taken as + + Leonard Rosenthol + fact, then again you might decide+ + President, LazerWare, inc. + that it really isn't, so you + + + never know, do you?? + + leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu + + + GEnie: MACgician + + + Delphi: MACgician + + + + + +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+