Re: Prescriptive means??

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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 00:01:14 EDT
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>>HTML.Prescriptive.
>
>It means "Dan sure wishes it were this way, but there are so
>many documents that conflict with this, that it's not this way."
>
>Dan
>
Thanks, Dan, for the clarification. That helps a lot. 
Stan Newton
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