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From: wilson@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Nathan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Were all Mac Tech Notes revised?
Message-ID: <6018@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 19 Oct 88 18:39:04 GMT
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Reply-To: wilson@csli.UUCP (Nathan Wilson)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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I just finished downloading all the Technotes from the sumex archive.
They appear to all be from the recent update, however I do have one
gripe.  They are still all in MacWrite format.  It seems that Apple
has no business continuing to force that brain damaged (personal
opinion) editor down peoples throats, particularly hackers who almost
exclusively use 'pure' text editors.  I know that most word processors
have the ability to read MacWrite format documents but they tend to be
quite slow, and slightly off in various little unaesthetic ways
(aesthetics being the presumed goal of putting the notes in something
more that TEXT format in the first place..  I have contemplated and
even begun the tedious process of converting all 200+ technotes to
TEXT format, and had a few questions.  First, has anyone already done
this so I can avoid doing it?  Would anyone else have a use for them
and am I allowed to distribute them?  I was thinking about making them
TeachText documents and was wondering how people get PICTs into such
and how to create ttro documents (these are the teach text documents
with the funny icon that looks like a bunch of hieroglyphs with a
window on top).  I suspect the right thing to do would be to have both
pure TEXT versions of all the technotes so that you can call them
up/grep through them with your favorite utilities, and also ttro
versions for the ones that have pictures.  The TEXT versions could
include references to pictures in the appropriate places.
                 Nathan Wilson