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From: philipp@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (Philip A. Prindeville)
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Subject: RFCs, ISO DISs and ASCII copies...
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Date: 7 Jul 88 20:08:17 GMT
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	The trick is getting whoever has the machine-readable source for the
	text to create straight ASCII for public consumption (and of course
	the diagrams and such disappear).

(I will no doubt get flamed, but...)

There are obvious undeniable advantages to providing the RFCs, IDEAs,
etc in ASCII line-printer-ready format.  Yet there is also the need
to express things that can't be described adequately or as concisely
using just text.  I think it is time that we move towards using a
page description language for giving tables, state diagrams, etc.

-Philip

PS:	Can anyone think of a language?  :-)