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In article <75208@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, gaynor@bat.cis.ohio-state.edu (Vampire) writes:
> 	Actually, I find this another reason to hate IBMs, and the users who 
> have no concept of proportional fonts.  I can't count the number of times that
> I've downloaded a file to find that the person who wrote it used spaces
> rather than tabs to line things up, or hit a <cr> at the end of each -line- 
> rather than at the end of each paragraph.  

We are, naturally, of different worlds, here, but it seems that someone
should have mentioned this before... The ASCII _standard_ for textfiles
is to end each _line_ with an <eol>. For a PC, this is defined as a
<cr>/<lf>. I might complain of the reverse, were I to download a
MacWrite file. In fact, I would face much harder problems, since
MacWrite files are hardly unadorned text.

> At least, if you're going to use
> <cr>s to designate an eol, then use 2 <cr>s for end-of-paragraph.  <sigh>

<sigh>, indeed! In view of your disclaimer (shown below)
that there is no one universal machine, I hardly expected this
expression of melancholy. As a MacUser, you are doubtless aware that
there are more similarities between a Mac and DesktopPublishing than
there are between other architectures and a Mac. Why, then, do you
bemoan that the rest of the world does not format its documents to your
specifications? Proportional fonts plain don't exist in a _text_
document. 

In my work, I have occasion to communicate with a large number of
differing platforms. Because of their diversity, I have learned how to
translate between them (in terms of text files). Translator programs
abound. (one such was posted to comp.sources this week) 

Tolerance and cooperation are what make the computerists of the world
strong. Don't complain that the rest of the world treats you badly...
learn to work _with_ other systems. After all, few users are going to
change their platform simply to ease _your_ text-translation woes.

> DISCLAIMER:  I don't think that just one computer can solve all a user's woes.
> There are things that each of the "mainstream" computers does better than its
> competitors, and things that each does worse.  I just find, that for me, the 
> Mac does more of what -I- want to do, and does it that way I want it done.

My point, precisely. And my PC does what -I- want to do, the way -I-
want it done. Including translate MacTextFiles to real ASCII. The
difference is that I don't ask you to format it _for_ me.

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