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From: lippin@wheatena.berkeley.edu (The Apathist)
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Subject: Re: Config File Resource Blues
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Date: 12 Jul 89 03:33:06 GMT
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Recently stores@unix.UUCP (Matt Mora) wrote:
>About the "remebering the state of things" I would like to see some sort of
>standard about text file resources. It would be wonderful for my appliction
>to be able to read a text file and get the font, font size, window 
>size/position and cursor location no matter what application created it.

A fine idea.  How about if we all use whatever MPW uses?  It's got to
be the most commonly used editor that does this, and I'll bet (or at
least hope) that it isn't too badly hacked.

>I would also like to see all word processing documents save the text
>undecoded.  (maybe they all do that now) so if i want I could have a
>text editor open the plain text.

I doubt that this is practical for really large documents.  The
formatting info has to go somewhere, and, as we all know, the resource
manager is not a database.  Plus, it's speedier to put the formatting
near the text it affects.  Of course, there are compromises like RTF,
but they're bulky.

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