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From: bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The USENET Macintosh Programmer's Guide
Message-ID: <11550007@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 89 19:21:25 GMT
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>Instead of coming up with yet another file format, why not just use
>TeachText? It's not well known, but TeachText files can have PICTs
>in them. The mechanism is somewhat silly, but at least everybody
>has [access to] TeachText, definitely more so than MacWrite.  The
>way Claris is taking MacWrite means that it won't be universal in
>the near future.

BUT! The existing MacWrite format is immutable. And a bazoollion programs 
already read that existing format. As will no doubt MacWrite version 129.3, 
when it comes out.

Don't you have to do something perverted to get PICTs into TeachText?!?

>
>-- 
>"Have you ever wondered if taxation without representation was cheaper?"
>
>	Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez
>	julian@riacs.edu

Scott Bayes
"The tribble left it at my desk. Drop by some day."