Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!zweig From: zweig@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (Johnny Zweig) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Comment on RFC1124 (?) Message-ID: <1989Sep28.030658.4118@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 28 Sep 89 03:06:58 GMT References: <5446@asylum.SF.CA.US><932@manta.NOSC.MIL> Sender: news@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu Reply-To: zweig@cs.uiuc.edu Organization: U of Illinois, CS Dept., Systems Research Group Lines: 16 It seems the best thing to do is to put PostScript stuff _somewhere else_. I like being able to do "lpr RFCxxx" and have the right thing happen -- and I imagine people who don't have PostScript printers around would be even more adamant on the point. It seems that complicated drawings ought to go into some kind of companion document that would be referenced (with good old [1]...[n] in plain ASCII) in the RFC-proper. I think that one can go a long way with - + | _ / \ < and >. Certainly anything that can't be described without a comlicated drawing ought to be rephrased. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a standard should be clear enough not to need thousands of words. -Johnny Keep-it-simple