Re: ASCII text files

[BILL MITCHELL <ECWFM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Allin said:

"I accept that some people who are not attached to university
departments may have genuine difficulties dealing with postscript
files.  But for anyone with an academic position, this ought to be
a snap.  It is worth learning about, and I don't see why authors
should be called upon to prepare special ASCII versions of their
work.  If your academic computer system has a postscript printer,
invest the short time required to learn how to send files to it; and
if it doesn't, then agitate for one -- it is standard equipment."

I couldn't agree more. Put me in the 1995 crew. Postscript printers have been
around for several years now and I have at home even.

What are we going to do when I suggest to Ric that we have PKT seminars on-line
via IRC Channel #pkt_seminar, with all of us at an appropriate time to
accommodate our international dispersion, talking through the relay together in
real time. Postscript problems will be like spreading peanut butter on toast.

and it is an extremely retrogade step to ask authors to use ascii. that was a
format when technology was young.

kind regards
bill
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