Whats wrong with plain old ascii text.
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> From: Paul E Coad <pcoad_at_crl.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Archive file formats (RE: Archiving Stuff)
> Date: Wednesday, June 25, 1997 8:47 PM
>
>
> Kai,
>
> Nice initial stab at some standards. I am a little concerned that this
> is a bit PC-centric. I would like to make sure that those of us on the
> fringe (not using Windows machines or Macs) don't get left out. This
> may mean lowering the standards to be a little more inclusive.
>
> Maybe these are all cross-platform standards, I don't know. Can any of
> the VMS/AmigaOS/TOS/whatnotOS people read and write all of these formats?
>
> I'm not trying to start a religious war. I want to be able to make use
> of and possibly contribute to the archive.
>
> On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Kai Kaltenbach wrote:
>
> > Hey, figuring out standards like this is what I do. I recommend:
> >
> > JPEG for photo scans (brochures, ads, etc.)
> > - It's the Internet photo file format standard
>
> xv can be used to view these so Unix/X is covered.
>
> >
> > Compressed 1-bit, 300 dpi TIFF for schematics
> > - Almost everything supports TIFF, including tons of shareware and
> > Wang's free image processing add-on for Win95
> > (http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/info/wang.htm)
> > - 1-bit means monochrome (not grayscale). Use JPEG for images.
> > - Images should be 300 dpi, 8 1/2" x 11", i.e. 2550 x 3300 (don't worry
> > about scanning white space, it takes no space at all when compressed)
> >
>
> 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.
>
> Is there a reason that postscript cannot be used? Most of the schematics
> out there that I have seen have been postscript files.
>
> > TXT for text documents that don't use formatting
> > - 80-column with carriage returns please
>
> Text is good.
>
> >
> > RTF (Rich Text Format) for text documents that use formatting
> > - WordPerfect, Word, WordPad, etc. will save in this format
> >
>
> Is there anything under Unix which can read and/or write RTF?
>
> Why not use postscript for publishing the formatted documents?
>
> --pec
>
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