Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!ginosko!uunet!mstan!perry From: perry@Morgan.COM (Perry Metzger) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: PostScript Versus ASCII Message-ID: <417@colorado.Morgan.COM> Date: 2 Oct 89 17:58:13 GMT References: <8909301233.aa05407@huey.udel.edu> <6373@ficc.uu.net> <629@wet.UUCP> Reply-To: perry@Morgan.COM (Perry Metzger) Organization: Morgan Stanley and Co., NY, NY Lines: 24 In article <629@wet.UUCP> epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes: >I don't know how things are where you live, but in California if >you don't have PostScript capability "at home" you go to the >local copy shop with a diskette. Sorry, but here in New York, things are different. I still want ASCII, if you don't mind. The beauty of ASCII is that everyone can in fact read it. Most RFC's even convert pretty well into EBCDIC with simple tools. >Rather than argue about how widespread PostScript is, why not >support software such as FSF's GhostScript that will make it >unquestionably available to the neo-Luddites? What about people who want to read their RFC's today? So far as I know, GhostScript has no outline fonts and doesn't drive any laser printers that I own. Besides, it is written in C. What happens to those people who are using machines other than Unix boxes? Since when did they become second class citizens? What happened to people without laser printers? Not everyone has them, you know. The point here is this. PostScript may claim to be the new ASCII, but in fact ISO Latin 1 is the new ascii :-). Perry