Uwe Klein wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Richard, >> >> The rfc1305 is fourteen years old and now overtaken by the NTPv4 draft >> now on the project page. I would be happy to add a glossary and index, >> but not in Postel ASCII. My tools produce wonderful, beautiful >> PostScript and PDF, but not Postel ASCII. > > > Do I find a definition of "Postel ASCII" somewhere? > > The only mention i found through google were some > notoriously known persons discussing > how to convert pdf -> Postel ASCII > ( and that well in the past ;-)) > > I don't have a problem with getting plain ascii from pdf, but > there may be special pee to invest to achieve postel ascii? > > uwe
Jonathan Postel was one of the Internet pioneers and was responsible for editing RFCs for publication (or something like that). This was back in the 1980's and maybe early 1990's. He insisted that RFCs be plain ASCII text; no PostScript, no WordPerfect/Word/Wordstar etc. Plain ASCII text could be read and written by anyone. None of the other potential formats was easily accessible to everyone regardless of what O/S he was running or the hardware platform he was running it on. This was probably the proper call for that day and age. The world has moved on. PDF is accessible to most people and most O/Ss but there are exceptions. Adobe refuses to support the Solaris X86 platform. I don't think there was ever a PDF reader for VMS. Jonathan Postel has since died and some people feel that his ASCII text only rule should continue in perpetuity or something. I don't agree but I wasn't given a vote! _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
