Re: ASCII is dead, long live ASCII (was: Image attachments to ASCII RFCs)

[Peter Dambier <peter at peter-dambier.de>]

Michael Thomas wrote:
> Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
>
> > John,
> >
> >     You mean that we should update the current medieval print format 
> > to take advantage of the best technology available to the Victorians?
> >
> >     Why go to all that trouble to create infrastructure to support an 
> > obsolete document format when we can get all the infrastructure 
> > required to support a modern, open format that delivers professional 
> > results for free?
> >
> >     Moreover there is a much higher probability that third party tools 
> > will support a common W3C/IETF format than an IETF only format.  
> Which tools would those be? Cat, tr, emacs, vi, grep, cut, sed, curses, 
> wc, more or less?

I absolutely need vi and grep. PDF is nasty because is lacks these tools.

> Am a Luddite. I like ASCII. I despise PDF, and most especially its 
> hideous anti-aliased
> fonts. As software engineer, I don't need drawings that I can use to run 
> a lathe or a
> milling machine. Simple stick figures, ladder diagrams, and boxes for 
> bits and bytes
> are about all I really need to see to transform an RFC into code. As 
> protocol designer,
> the fewer Paper Clips sent by Beelzebub himself, the better. If it can't 
> be edited using
> the buffer gap method, I'm not interested.
>
> Victorian? Pah. The death of Prince Albert of Ascii would require a 
> minimum of a
> year of  mourning, and a smart new black wardrobe for Phill. Not to 
> mention a
> cross sovereign.
>
>       Mike, we are not amused.

By the way, might we - - - perhaps EBCDIC ???

It is much better than ASCII because it sorts numbers where they belong,
behind the letters and not in front of them.

And please keep a space not a tab and no printable character in column one.
I need it for printcontrol.

EBCDIC has got all the graphic characters you  ever need. It is a standart
and it is multiplatform.

Both kermit and ftp can handle EBCDIC. Even the PC and Apple addicts can
use it.

You can use dd to translate between ASCII and EBCDIC

http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mansec?1M+dd

So it is already present on all decent operating systems.

Using the 3270 telnet option, all decent browsers allow reading EBCDIC
pages. No need for plugins.

Any comments? lol and rofl favoured :)

apropos

There exist readers for ASCII and EBCDIC either Braille or literally
readers for the blind and for people with reading disabilities.

Internet sans frontiers.


Cheers
Peter


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