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Re: Families of Entries
David,
You must have a different setup than I do. Ed's *.doc file read just fine
here.
Cheers & Merry Ho-Ho ....Erik.
At 18:45 98/12/22 -0000, David Chadwick wrote:
>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
>>
>> ----------------------
>> Ed Reed, Technologist
>> Novell, Inc.
>> +1 801 861-3320
>>
>> >>> "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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