Richard B. gilbert wrote: > 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. So its just plain ASCII then.
pdftotext *.pdf works like a charm, one would have to massage the indices and some title lines. > > 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. what about xpdf? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpdf it does not support embedded ECMA Script ( a boon ithink) uwe _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
