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From: julian@riacs.edu (Julian E Gomez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The USENET Macintosh Programmer's Guide
Message-ID: <1371@hydra.riacs.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 89 21:35:39 GMT
References: <3966@ece-csc.UUCP> <11550007@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Reply-To: julian@hydra.riacs.edu.UUCP (Julian E Gomez)
Organization: Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science
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In article <11550007@hpfcdc.HP.COM> bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) writes:
" >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.

I realize that any reasonable word processor will import MacWrite
files. The difference between all of them and TeachText is that
TeachText is free and comes with the system software as well as much
commercial software.

" Don't you have to do something perverted to get PICTs into TeachText?!?
Not perverted, just silly :-)

-- 
"Have you ever wondered if taxation without representation was cheaper?"

	Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez
	julian@riacs.edu