Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV!ZMLEB From: ZMLEB@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV (Lee Brotzman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Basis Document Question Message-ID: <9008081429.AA15956@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 8 Aug 90 13:44:17 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 45 >Anyway, what I'm wondering is: How would the Basis folks feel about my >posting my TeX'ed version, provided I include all Ansi copyrights, and >a prominent disclaimer that this is NOT official, and that it is >likely to contain slight errors. I think that a lot of folks would >really appreciate getting the document in this format, but I don't >want to do anything contrary to the will of the Basis committee. I don't know how the "Basis folks" would feel about it, but I know I don't want to see another half-Megabyte of mostly-useless text flow through the FIGI-L list again. I say "mostly-useless" because the original was restricted to one word-processor format and transmitted with Unix and PC specific protocols. TeX formatted material would be only "partially useless" since it is more widely used among computer people and can be transmitted as plain text. FIGI-L is an international list that is connected to a very wide variety of computers. JAX sending that half-Megabyte of crap through the system has caused Mailer software and human Postmasters at several sites to bounce all kinds of stuff back at me. I've been cleaning up after JAX's mess for the past three days. The least JAX could have done is give some kind of warning about the sudden flow that he intended to dump on the net, and try to gauge how much interest there was. The best thing he could do with his generosity was to set up an anonymous FTP for it, rather than force thousands of computers to swallow the stuff, uninvited. >Please, do NOT send me email requesting this beast. If I receive >permission from the committee, then I will post it. If I don't get >permission, then I will not even give the slightest consideration to >answering your mail. You could also try asking the net if it wants you to post it, and look around for an anonymous FTP that would accept it, rather than shove it down our throats. By the way, how much time have you spent on this MS Word -> TeX conversion and was it really worth it, considering that for just $10 you could have gotten a printed version from Elizabeth Rather at Forth Inc.? >|Mark Craig Carroll: >|Student SysProg - LCSR -- Lee Brotzman (FIGI-L Moderator) -- BITNET: ZMLEB@SCFVM Internet: zmleb@scfvm.gsfc.nasa.gov -- I'm only a contractor, don't blame me for the tax rates and don't blame -- the government for my statements.