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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: If you are going to post to comp.binaries.mac, read this!!!
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Date: 10 Apr 91 21:28:33 GMT
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jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino) writes:
> I maintain that simple README files should always be TeachText documents.

	No argument on that one from me.

> If you've written a manual with more complicated formatting, then I must
> >reluctantly< agree that providing it in MacWrite format is more polite
> than using MS Word.

	What would be really nice is if each word processor came with a
"read-only" version that was freely distributable.  That way, you could
write your manuals using whatever program you liked best and distribute
them with the "document reader" version so people could read them.  Said
version should allow people to view and print documents, but not change or
save them.

	Not that it really matters much in practice anyway.  I can't
remember the last time I saw a Macintosh that didn't have a hot copy of MS
Word on it.  :-(
--
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