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[mark@cheers.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning/Muniz Eng.)]

According to Jon S. Jaques:
> 
> Again, even Fetch isn't even good enough to be "2nd rate." It seems to me
> that if nobody has written fool proof FTP for the Mac yet, that it may not
> EVER happen.
Fetch, the current version, is quite capable of handling
all sorts of file transfers.  I've developed two large
scale database applications using MacPerl.  Then I
transferred them over to SGI Unix boxes without a hitch.
Now the databases on the other hand had to be converted
since they were all in packed binary format.  But text - no
problem.  Somewhere around 100 routines in both programs.
Not a glitch.  It's got to be that old IBM vs Mac problem
getting in the way.  My wife has this problem sometimes.
She tries to make the Mac do things the IBM way and this
causes her no end of problems.  She becomes very very
frustrated because of it.  In fact, she became so
distraught trying to make the Mac do something that I
actually had to write her a letter and have it come up
every time the computer was booted asking her not to treat
the Mac like she would an IBM.

So, if you are getting frustrated over how to do something
on the Mac.  Or if you are upset over something the Macs
have done which would not have happened on an IBM.  Just
remember - it's not an IBM and will never be an IBM.  Just
like an IBM is a IBM and never will be a Mac.  IBM people
say "Thank god for that!" and Mac people say "Thank god for
that!".  Because that's just how most people are.  We each
love our machine and really dislike the other brand.
Simply because it just doesn't work in the manner we are
accustomed to.


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