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From: dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us (Doug Philips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: BASIS 12
Message-ID: <1605.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 24 Aug 90 14:36:33 GMT
Organization: String, Scotch tape, and Paperclips.  (in Pgh, PA)
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This is a forwarded message.  Please do not reply via email to me.  -DWP

Date: Thu, 23 Aug 90 09:10:53 EDT
From: uunet!mailrus!uflorida!rm1!mclek%rmatl (Larry E. Kollar)
Message-Id: <9008231310.AA14337@rmatl>
To: mailrus!willett.pgh.pa.us!dwp
Subject: Re: BASIS12
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
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[ I'm mailing this instead of posting it since our news comes in MUCH slower
  than mail.  I have no idea whether outgoing news is as slow.  You can post
  this to comp.lang.forth, ForthNet, whatever, if you think it'll do some good.
]

>I have already received one EMail request for an ASCII version of
>BASIS12.  It ain't gonna happen.  I have asked Dennis Ruffer for the
>exact same thing.  His reply was that the formatting information was
>too critical to the understanding of the document and that taking it
>out (in order to make straight ascii) was just infeasible and undesirable.

Why not just use RTF format? (Rich Text Format)  It's a text-only description
of a Word document, but that uses embedded commands to preserve the format
(much like TeX in style, but sufficiently different to make the conversion
non-trivial).  The best part is that you need merely save the document as an
RTF file from Word -- no muss, no fuss.  Maybe JAX or whoever could make the
doc an RTF file before posting next one....

I'm one of the lucky few I guess; I have Mac Word & could read the DOS Word
document after a lengthy (automatic) conversion process.  UNfortunately, I
don't have enough free hard disk space to leave a 640K document hanging around;
I just printed it & deleted it.

Hope this helps.
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