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From: John E Pederson <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: New SR E-mag
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:20:52 EST
On Sun, 1 Dec 1996 13:02:32 GMT Georg Greve <greve@*******.HANSE.DE>
writes:
<snip Gurth (sorry:)>
>This would suck big time. RTF isn't smaller than Postscript and
>Postscript is a machine INDEPENDED format... there are viewers for
>EVERY OS.

Yes, but it still requires that everyone has and can make easy use of
those viewers. I, for one, never could get Ghostscript to work:(

<snip on HTML>
>Huh ???? Just take a web browser to take a look at it and printing it
>is usually no problem at all. HTML is the only format besides
>Postscript and ASCII that is readable by ALL people.
Yeah, but it isn't as nifty or snazzy as PS or RTF, and it still requires
a viewer, like any other format.

John Pederson "God is dead"
lobo1@****.com -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 to
1900)
I don't know where my home page is! "Nietzsche is dead"
Only dead fish swim with the stream -God (everlasting to everlasting)

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