Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!maccs!ns
From: ns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Nick Solntseff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: BASIS Feedback
Message-ID: <26DD36FB.28338@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 30 Aug 90 15:55:38 GMT
References: <1640.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1640.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us> ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie) writes:
>Category 18,  Topic 54
>Message 91        Wed Aug 29, 1990
>D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 01:24 EDT
> 
>Re: DAVID@PENNDRLS.BITNET
>
> > Any chance we can convince the TC that an RTF version of the
> > BASIS is still Word format?
>
>                        ...  If there is widespread agreement that RTF is
>preferable to the Word format, I am willing to take the request to the TC. 
>However, I think the basic argument comes down to having one format for
>distribution, not a whole bunch of different ones.  

Whatever the format that is finally chosen, PLEASE BREAK THE DOCUMENT INTO
MANAGEABLE SECTIONS.  Use chapters and includes with MS WORD [TM] or similar
ploys to make document management possible on a computer without extra
memory beyond 640 K conventional memory!