Re: Those annoying attached files.
Whoever said the first part below I have to agree with. It is my belief that
some of you out there are stuffing Billy Gates pockets by purchasing his
products and swearing that you cannnot live without them. Whatever Microsquish
Windoze 95 program is being used and thus is sending letters out as attached
files is a royal pain in the arse to drag to my desktop and then drag over on
top of Word Perfect/Word 6.0/Edit II/Simple Text--whatever will open the file
(for fun, I also drag it on top of GraphicConverter/Acrobat/Calera OCR--because
I *can*. On particularly weird days, I drag the files on top of FoxPro...).
But I only do this if I feel like the letter is worth the hassle of reading.
Mostly, I take the Philip Glass minimalist approach and hit ye olde delete key.
The first day I sat down in front of a Macintosh computer was the first day of
the rest of my life. While PC users refuse to see the light and grab onto the
wave of the future (not the future.wav), we Mac users/programmers have bent to
accomodate/read the files that PC users send us. Right here I can unzip,
unstuff, convert, launch, play, cut, paste, copy, edit, save as, rename, make an
alias for, bin.hex, stuff, zip, fax, dcc, xdcc, send, trash and thrash any file
that comes my way.
When Microsquish came out with Windoze 95, they came out with a terrific product
that looks like where Apple Corp. was 10 years ago ('cept Gates' product is full
of bugs).
Oh yes, and before all of you PC users jump in and defend your beloved machines
and rip me apart, think back to the last time you installed a peripheral.
Remember tearing apart your machine to install cards and set switches and then
loaded the software? Then you reset the switches and reloaded the software.
And then you rereset the switches and rereloaded the software? OOPS! What was
that? You just discoved upon reading the tiny print buried in the footnote on
page 273 in the massive 1764 page manual that you need ANOTHER $367 dohickey to
make the $895 dollars worth of hardware you just bought work? Where on earth
did you get this lovely device? The computer swapmeet at the local fairgrounds
that only comes around once every third month that begins with the letter K? Oh
my! Well, we'd better get back there before they close...Oh I see, you paid $5
for parking and another $10 to get in...hmmm, yes, I guess that is a bit of a
problem to just run back there. How much money did you save by buying it
there???
Or would you guys rather I recant the tale of my sister, the network
administrator for a large computer corporation in Southern California,
installing Windoze 95 on my Dad's 586? Said 'puter plays solitaire really fast!
However, the HP Deskscan 4c no longer exists and the computer kills itself if
you try to launch it (a product feature!). I like to set my tiny Powerbook Duo
230 on top of the "nonexistent" HP 4c and surf the Internet. All I have to do
is plug in my modem to the phone line and attach the cable to the Duo--15
seconds tops (I know, I'm slow). Said sister is still searching (5 months now)
for the part that goes with the fax/modem she purchased for Dad (oh, and she's
had to add some ram...My Duo has a whopping 8 megs of ram and 80 megs of hard
disk space and I still run multiple connections/programs with ease--oh yeah, I
can attach the little bugger to my Quadra here at work [that connection takes 8
seconds--power strip is easier to get to]).
I bet you all know of similar "war" stories, so think before you flame me.
ObIDM/AMB/ORBital: Wonder what computer equipment "they" use and what war
stories "they" have...
Regards,
Nay
--whose fave all-time PC user horror story is of the guy who called a PC user
helpdesk asking for help and telling the customer service rep that he really
liked the cup holder that came out of the computer with the flick of a button.
=:-o
ObPS: If this letter ironically arrives to you as an attached file, it's
probably because of a mail handling problem inherent in some systems and not a
Windoze problem at all.
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Subject: Re: Re: Stop it please
quoted 5 lines From what I understand, those who're using a Microsoft mailer
> From what I understand, those who're using a Microsoft mailer
> of some sort send an attached binary file that, if the receiver
> is operating on a Windows platform (I think), that binary file
> is executed and sends an acknowledgement to the sender indicating
> that the message has been opened and read....