Martin Vermeer wrote:
>> (I actually found that handwritten manuscript a month ago,
>> and maybe I'll get it into a WP before the paper rots. :-)
>
>Trust me, the digital version will "rot" before the paper one does --
>if you don't take care. (Big real-world problem BTW, the permanency
>of electronically stored docs).
I don't know. The paper dates back to c. 1981, so it has quite the
head start on any electronic version I manage to create. Besides the
yellowing and fading, mice don't use floppies or CDs as material to
build nests. :-)
I *do* know not to put my only copy on a diskette, and will use
either a text editor or AbiWord to type it up. Whatever else happens
in the world of computing, I doubt that US-ASCII or XML will become
unreadable in my lifetime.
Larry
