Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!texsun!newstop!sun!amdahl!dgcad!gary From: gary@dgcad.SV.DG.COM (Gary Bridgewater) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: PostScript Versus ASCII Keywords: PostScript ASCII ODIF ODA Message-ID: <1151@svx.SV.DG.COM> Date: 3 Oct 89 07:19:42 GMT References: <361@nrcvax.NRC.COM> <[A.ISI.EDU]30-Sep-89.08:17:15.CERF> <45f40447.18268@apollo.HP.COM> Reply-To: gary@svx.SV.DG.COM () Organization: Data General SDD, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 34 In article <45f40447.18268@apollo.HP.COM> marc@apollo.HP.COM (Marc Gibian) writes: >This has been a very interesting discussion, but everyone seems to >have missed what seems to me to be the real problem. Let me give >it a try ... Nice try, too. A standard, actual, honest data interchange format as opposed to a proprietary, multi-versioned pseudo-standard. Wrong. Postscript looks OK but I think we are really missing an opportunity here. We have a chance to solve two problems at once. The new, improved CMIDEF - Cloistered Monk Illuminated Document Exchange Format. Surely all of us have a monastery near by which would be all to happy to produce great looking, hand-lettered (in black and red) copies of the RFCs with illuminated capitals, gilt edges, all solidly bound on vellum with pure leather binders. The data can be conveyed between the monasteries with a few simple dial up lines provided by helpful local sites. Or, even better, at last something for all those homeless burros in Arizona to do - ferrying the originals from site to site. Their income would be supplemented and you would have something to treasure for the rest of your life. Just the index alone would be suitable for framing! Special Illumination Groups could spring up - we could trade them like baseball cards since each one would be unique. Bind Or Frame sessions could be held at Interop. Paper? Hell No - Vellum Forever !! ;-> -- Gary Bridgewater, Data General Corp., Sunnyvale Ca. gary@sv4.ceo.sv.dg.com or {amdahl,aeras,amdcad,mas1,matra3}!dgcad.SV.DG.COM!gary No good deed goes unpunished.