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Re: Idea : common dir and tree (Rep:Re: Why not create packages?)
Hi.
In <[email protected]>, on Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:28:09 -0400,
David Merrill <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stein Gjoen wrote:
> > /
> > usr
> > share
> > HOWTO - the HOWTOs in HTML format goes here
> > ascii - same HOWTOS but as plain text
> > PDF - same HOWTOS but as PDF
> > PostScript
> > SGML
> I would prefer "text" to "ascii" on the grounds that the meaning is more
Agreed. Translated documents may not be "ascii", while it can still be
"plain text". So "text" is more appropriate in that case.
> apparent to computer neophytes, without any corresponding loss of
> precision. And, I would add "HTML", yielding:
>
> /
> usr
> share
> HOWTO - the HOWTOs in HTML format goes here
> text - same HOWTOS but as plain text
> PDF - same HOWTOS but as PDF
> PostScript
> SGML
> HTML
Again, agreed.
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Taketoshi Sano: <[email protected]>
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