Many things - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Jan 2005

Randy McLaughlin &lt;randy(a)s100-manuals.com&gt; wrote:

...
  You snipped all of my comments but only left my name,

My apologies, I've hit 'r' on the wrong message, I was really replying to
the post you replied to.  (I failed to notice it, though, because you didn't
use '> ' or other indent quotation.)

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  More than that you missed the biggest point,
PostScript is useless in this 
 case since the documents are stored as graphical images and cannot be used 
 on the classic computers. 
While of course a re-ASCII-fied document would be infinitely better, a
PostScript page description that uses nothing but the image operator is
still not totally useless to Classic computers, since it can still be
printed on a Classic PostScript printer, and the act of printing can be
performed from a Classic command line OS.

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  I scan many documents and I can tell you that
OCR'ing them and formatting 
 them so classic computers can handle them takes a huge amount of time.  I 
 have better things to do with my time, including scanning more documents. 
That is why we need a socialist government that would eliminate unemployment
with a massive public works program that would hire millions of people to
do the re-ASCII-fication work.

MS