Timothy C. May wrote:B
My main point is that the most compelling strategy seems to be to stick with ASCII for a while, avoid minor-but-painful gains with Postscript, Acrobat, Replica, TeX, FrameViewer, etc., and then jump to the Web/html/http/blah blah when the time is right.
I have noticed that folks with a Unix background have a rather higher tolerance for stuff that sort of works, most of the time, if you fiddle enough, than folks with Dos/Windows/Mac background I suspect brain damage caused by a "make" utility that treats spaces as semanticly different from tabs. AAargh! :-) (But I am not an operating system bigot, I will freely admit that segments and REPE CMPS have led to disturbing mental symptoms amongst us PC folk.) But seriously folks, GUI tools for manipulating and communicating information are just wonderfully superior. MIME etc provides a standard for such things. Problem is of course that it does not yet provide an entirely satisfactory reality. The standard is not yet standard. Which is why you are probably reading this in a monospaced font with hard carriage returns, rather than the proportionally spaced font and soft line breaks that you get in the WWW --------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we James A. Donald are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. jamesd@netcom.com