John Kilopascal wrote in USMA 19626 >With A4 being the most common paper size world-wide, one wonders what the >makers of filing cabinets don't make them a little wider to accommodate A4 >paper. It seems they would rather make them the way they are, export them >to other countries and thus attempt to create a market for FFU paper sizes, >as is being done in South America. Why go metric when you can sneak in FFU?
In Canada filing cabinets come in two widths: quarto and legal. I have one of narrower quarto ones. I use hanging files. They accommodate A4 with no trouble. I notice that NIST Special Punblication 811 is in A4 format. Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
