14 Macintosh
User's
Handbook
To
create a copy
of
a text* file
on
the Mac, the following
steps would be required:
I.
Power on the Mac.
2.
Insert a
startup
disk containing
LETTER
I.TXT
in the Mac•s drive. We will assume this disk was
named Example Disk.
3.
Open
the
Example Disk icon
on
the Desktop by
moving the pointer
to
it
and
double-clicking the
mouse button. Example
Disk•s window will
appear. The
LETTER
l.TXT
document icon will
be displayed in that window.
4.
Select
LETTER
I.
TXT
by moving the pointer
to
it
and
clicking the mouse button.
5.
Move the pointer
to
the File menu
and
pull
down
that
menu. Indicate Duplicate by clicking the
mouse
button.
A new icon named
Copy
of
LET-
TERI.TXT
will
appear
in the window.
Notice
that
approximately the same number
of
steps were
required to perform the copy operation
on
both computers.
I
Although the comparative
number
of
steps required will vary
according to the operation being performed, in
our
opinion,
this copying operation was a fairly representative test.
As pointed out in this example, the major differences
between the Mac
and
a conventional computer such as the
IBM
PC
consist
of
how a task
is
accomplished. The IBM
PC
copying operation required the formulation
and
entry
of
a
specific literate command:
COPY LETTEA1.TXT LETTER2.TXT
• Text
files
are known as documents on the Mac.
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