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Re: Families of Entries
Date forwarded: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:28:08 -0800 (PST)
Date sent: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 10:27:22 -0700
From: "Ed Reed" <ED_REED@novell.com>
To: <d.w.chadwick@iti.salford.ac.uk>, <Bob.Morgan@stanford.edu>
Copies to: <ietf-ldapext@netscape.com>
Subject: Re: Families of Entries
Forwarded by: ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Fascinating...I'm attaching the .doc and resulting .txt file I'm using for
Unfortunately, whilst the .txt file was good, the .doc file was 91k of
garbage that when opened in Word showed one blank page only !!.
When opened in Wordpad it showed the text of the document plus
lots of other control characters - but clearly not the correct ones for
Word 97
At least this proves one thing. It will take a lot to persuade the IETF
to swop the current .txt files for .doc file :-)
David
> the LDUP information model i-d...I've tried your doc and got the same
> results (see t3.txt, below)...
>
> In the finest tradition of reuseable code, I didn't invent this...another
> guy here at Novell passed it on to me (Scott Isaccson, who worked on the
> Internet Print Protocol spec)...where he came up with it, I'm not sure...
>
> Ed
>
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>
> >>> "David Chadwick" <d.w.chadwick@iti.salford.ac.uk> 12/22/1998 10:11:55
> >>> >>>
> Date forwarded: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:09:55 -0800 (PST)
> Date sent: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:09:58 -0800 (PST)
> From: RL Bob Morgan <Bob.Morgan@Stanford.EDU>
>
> > I suggest not bothering. I suggest that the addition of page
> > breaks/headers/footers in I-Ds is an anachronism that wastes authors'
> > preparation time (e.g. yours here),
>
> too true. I spent (i.e. wasted) nearly as many hours trying to get the
> page numbers etc inserted correctly in .txt format, as in producing the ID
> in the first place, and I failed. I then spent more hours trying to get
> the generic printer to work, which it does not (if you dont believe me I
> attach a simple one sentence word document to this message with the
> accompanying text prn file (renamed to .txt)
>
>
> >is pointless when reading docs in
> > browsers/editors (where I suspect the vast majority of them are read),
> > and only makes it harder for readers to compare successive versions of
> > drafts.
> > For what it's worth I made this suggestion in the recent thread on the
> > main IETF list about document formats and received only positive
> > comments ...
> >
>
> great. So what are we going to do about it? the main benefit I can
> see from using .txt format is that you send 2k of bits instead of a
> mega 20k using Word, to say essentially the same thing. (see the
> current attachments) So I dont advocate moving to Word, as
> downloading my email by modem will then take ten times as long.
> But .txt without headers and footers would certainly be a big step
> forward, at least for IDs
>
> David
>
>
> > - RL "Bob"
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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