🚀 go-pugleaf

So far the mail on the ASCII vs RTF issue is running strongly in favor of  
RTF. However, two people have raised a valid concern: Their access to the  
Net is not directly through their NeXT machine. (Sounds like a reasonable  
definition of Hell to me.) I just don't know: Is there any way they can  
get RTF in that situation?

Also, someone else mentioned the enormous amount of flamage earlier this  
year directed at people who post RTF, and pointed out that an attempt to  
create c.s.n.rtf failed. Should this bother us uber-programmers?

I received several suggestions to include more stuff on OS functions and  
Mach. To me, only some OS issues, such as missing functions on NeXT that  
Sun programmers are used to, are relevant to c.s.n.programmer. I don't  
know about Mach and Unix generally. It seems to me that very few people  
actually write Loadable Kernel Servers. Besides, there's already a  
comp.os.mach and comp.os.unix newsgroup. Has NeXT really hacked up the  
standard Mach and BSD releases enough to include it here too?

Subrata Sircar made the excellent suggestion to list the standard  
documentation sources and books, so people know where to go for further  
enlightenment.

Several people suggested separate FAQs for each object class, but that  
seems excessive. Do we really want 100 small FAQ postings every month?  
Besides, in DL it doesn't really matter where the info lives. I find it  
more convenient to find multiple references within fewer titles, anyway.

As usual, keep those cards and letters coming....

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