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From: brian@ut-sally.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: TN0145.WRT, debugger FKEY
Message-ID: <8893@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 21:22:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-sally.8893
Posted: Mon Aug 31 21:22:40 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Sep-87 05:48:56 EDT
References: <6969@dartvax.UUCP>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Summary: Keep MacWrite format

In article <6969@dartvax.UUCP>, earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton) writes:
> I wish Apple would distribute
> these things [ the tech notes ] in TEXT format, so we can preview them.
>
> *********************************************************************
> *Earle R. Horton, H.B. 8000, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755   *
> *********************************************************************

     I disagree.  If you mean the TN's should be posted only in TEXT format, I
disagree because we'd lose all the diagrams in the translation.  If you mean
the TN's should be posted in both formats (a la alt.recipes (or whatever it's
called)), I think that's a tremendous waste of net resources.  (That doesn't
necessarily mean I think alt.recipes is a waste.)
     I suspect that most people, if they download any tech notes, download all
the tech notes, no matter what they cover.  Being able to preview the content
doesn't gain much, in my view.  (Apple doesn't put out lame tech notes like
this very often.)  I use the TN's as a resource much like Inside Mac.  I print
them all out because someday I may need the information on one I don't have.
It's kind of like what a friend of mine said about the Journal of the ACM;
when I showed him an issue which included an article titled "Partitioning a
Polygonal Region into Trapezoids", he said "Well, you never know when you're
going to need to know how to partition a polygonal region into trapezoids, and
when you do, you'll have it."

Brian H. Powell