Re: proposed MIME type, Microsoft Help

"Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer Centre" <P.Lister@cranfield.ac.uk>
Message-id: <9310041307.AA05679@xdm039.ccc.cranfield.ac.uk>
To: Anthony Baxter <anthony@aaii.oz.au>
Cc: ccprl@cranfield.ac.uk, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: proposed MIME type, Microsoft Help
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Oct 93 19:08:34 +1000." <199310040911.AA00362@eden-valley.aaii.oz.AU>
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 93 14:07:41 BST
From: "Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer Centre" <P.Lister@cranfield.ac.uk>
> From memory, there _was_ a program posted that spat text out from
> bookreader documents - it got squished, DEC claimed the format was
> proprietry, or something. This was maybe a year or two ago. I think
> DECwrite can read and write bookreader files, but thats a $$$ option.

We have DECwrite (for our sins), and it will output to bookreader, but
not input. The output is pathetic, as it takes all the paper specific
settings - typeface, page breaks, and along with the document structure
- it's more trouble than it's worth. Even if DECwrite did input
bookreader, it would do something dumb with it....

> Who knows, DEC just put all their info on gatekeeper onto the Web, maybe
> they will write something like this and release it? (Yeah, right...)

Oooh, look at that pig flying past my window!

Thanx anyway.

Peter Lister                             Email: p.lister@cranfield.ac.uk
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