Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ginosko!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!CRVAX.SRI.COM!LARSON From: LARSON@CRVAX.SRI.COM (Alan Larson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Comment on RFC1124 (?) Message-ID: <623226523.910000.LARSON@CRVAX.SRI.COM> Date: 1 Oct 89 07:28:43 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 I think the writer who proposed that IAB buy us all PostScript equipment had a good point. As Vint Cerf pointed out, the last host count was over 100,000 hosts - and a large number of us do not have Postscript displays that let us search, cut, paste, as well as display. With real ascii, we can include excerpts cut from the RFCs in messages (like this one) that we send to vendors who are delivering non-conforming software. With real ascii, I can search through the directory of RFCs for the text string I remember, find it, and paste it (with good old- fashioned tools like emacs) into a message. Just imagine what this message would have looked like with a paragraph or two of postscript included. Alan -------