APPLEVISION Monitor

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon May 6 15:50:22 2002

Using those utilities isn't as obvious as it should be, then, since I remember
someone telling me something quite different about them last fall when I had
my first exploit into fiddling with a Mac beyond the keyboard and mouse.

I certainly wasn't able to get the thing to FIND anything.

Walking on the water does require one know where the rocks are.

see below ...

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <mythtech_at_mac.com>
To: "Classic Computer" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: APPLEVISION Monitor


> >Names like "chooser"
> >for something that doesn't choose, and "finder" for something that doesn't
> >find, is pretty confusing.
>
> Well... the Chooser is used to "choose" your printer (and network server,
> and sometimes fax modem, or PDF converter, and occasionaly a scanner, and
> once in a while some other stuff)
>
> And the Finder is used to find and locate your files on the hard drive,
> floppy drive, or other storage device... as well as to launch them,
> modify them, copy them, delete them, and do pretty much anything else
> that interacts with them, or applications, or many other parts of the Mac.
>
> What's so confusing about that? :-)
>
It would be less confusing if it actually did that
>
> (yes, that is a joke... Finder and Chooser are some fairly odd names for
> what they do)
>
Maybe I should have said "don't do."
Received on Mon May 06 2002 - 15:50:22 BST