Archive file formats (RE: Archiving Stuff) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Jun 1997

At 06:47 PM 6/25/97 -0700, you wrote:
...
 I'm not so sure that "everything"
supports TIFF.  After a little looking, 
I couldn't even find a TIFF file to test with xv.   
And my experience has been that TIFF is not always the same, especially Mac
vs. PC.

...
 Is there a reason that postscript cannot be used?  Most
of the schematics
out there that I have seen have been postscript files. [...]
...
 Why not use postscript for publishing the formatted
documents?  
Postscript is fine for Macs, not so great for PC's, and probably unusable
for most older (pre-pc) machines.  I'm not so worried about the images, but
the formatted text should be kept readable.  I'm not super-familiar with
RTF, but isn't it just tags (like HTML)?  If so, than a "reader"(?) could
be
written, even for CP/M or TRS-DOS or whatever...

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