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Re: Formatting in the text

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From: El Gordo
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 12:53
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> From: bill@edu.arizona.nsma (Bill Skaggs)
> [...]
> I don't agree.  It would certainly be a bad idea to have "universal"
> formatting, such as Word uses -- where every data file must contain
> specific formatting information in order for the editor to be able to
> handle it.  But that was never in the cards anyway.
> [...]

I somtimes use Epoch to edit binaries; usually an a.out when a text
string need to change and the sources are large or lost.

What else do we need? :-) "Specific formats"?

Gordon.
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