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From: LARSON@CRVAX.SRI.COM (Alan Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Comment on RFC1124 (?)
Message-ID: <623226523.910000.LARSON@CRVAX.SRI.COM>
Date: 1 Oct 89 07:28:43 GMT
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  I think the writer who proposed that IAB buy us all PostScript
equipment had a good point.  As Vint Cerf pointed out, the last host
count was over 100,000 hosts - and a large number of us do not have
Postscript displays that let us search, cut, paste, as well as display.

  With real ascii, we can include excerpts cut from the RFCs in
messages (like this one) that we send to vendors who are delivering
non-conforming software.

  With real ascii, I can search through the directory of RFCs for
the text string I remember, find it, and paste it (with good old-
fashioned tools like emacs) into a message.  Just imagine what this
message would have looked like with a paragraph or two of postscript
included.

        Alan
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