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From: bkc@OMNIGATE.CLARKSON.EDU (Brad Clements)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  Comment on RFC1124 (?)
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Date: 28 Sep 89 15:00:47 GMT
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Karl Auerbach has proposed that postscript RFC's be banned, presumably because
trying to index keywords in a postscript file is a pain, and not because 
he feels that postscript printers are too obscure. (is that right?)

I don't mind postscript format, but I think the question of keyword indexing
should be addressed. 

It would be useful if authors of any document that is shipped in postscript
were to add a postscript prologue to the file with the proper keyword indexes.

A standard postscript prologue goes something like;

%%Begin Keywords
%%topic: interfaces checksum rfc1001 netbios smb
%%relatedto: udp ip rfc1002 
%%End Keywords

By standard, I mean the double % and the begin and end blocks. I probably
don't have the version 2.0 ESPF format quite right, but the idea is the same
anyway.

It'd be easy to strip out sets of keywords (do we need an RFC to describe the
standard for key words?) and items prefaced by % won't upset the postscript
printer either.


comments?


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