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From: jtw@lcs.mit.edu (John Wroclawski)
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Subject: Re: Comment on RFC1124 (?)
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Date: 29 Sep 89 15:25:38 GMT
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In article 
hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
(About RFC's in PostScript)

   If we
   get to the point where we can assume that everybody is using a
   workstation or X terminal, I'd be willing to consider a document
   format that could only be displayed on such a beast. 

This and the next several messages in this thread suggest that people
might be happy if they could display PostScript RFC's online.  That
doesn't seem like enough to me -- I haven't seen a PostScript (dvi,
whathaveyou) previewer yet that had search or cut-and-paste
capability.  I think ASCII will be the best choice unless/until there
is some sort of universal WYSIWIG editor description format and a
-whole bunch- of programs that use it.

John Wroclawski - MIT Lab for Computer Science - jtw@lcs.mit.edu