Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!mjohnson From: mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple Technotes Message-ID: <35169@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 2 Oct 89 01:01:49 GMT References: <8909301119.AA12102@trout.nosc.mil> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 21 In article <8909301119.AA12102@trout.nosc.mil> sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com (The RainForest BBS) writes: >I would think that ASCII is the =MOST= computer-CPU- compatible way to >distribute =ANY= text file since almost ALL computers allow the import of >ASCII files to a readable condition."special" to Apple (and the //e and lower are not any more) then the MAC >damned well better be able to "read" straight text!> If the II line was not important to Apple, then I can promise you that I would not spend nights and weekends converting the files to ASCII for distribution on the Apple II. If we were that biased in DTS, you would find the Notes distributed in a Macintosh word processor format as they used to be before the November 1988 revisions. Enough said! -- Mark B. Johnson AppleLink: mjohnson Developer Technical Support domain: mjohnson@Apple.com Apple Computer, Inc. UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,sun,unisoft}!apple!mjohnson "You gave your life to become the person you are right now. Was it worth it?" - Richard Bach, _One_