RE: ASCII art

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The fact that file formats may become obsolete
and unreadable 20 years later is a crucially important
for IETF continuity.

I remember seeing a cartoon a few years ago
showing an email from Gates to Judge Jackson
stating that the latter's court decision was in 
an old format of Word and hence unreadable, 
and further suggesting that the Judge upgrade.

Unfortunately, I find that even ASCII files exact a price.
I find that I can usually not print an ID directly from
my browser as the lines become broken (due to the default font
being too large), and the text hard to read. 
Nor should I print directly from my word processor
as it adds a blank page between every two pages
and occasionally places the footer on a page by itself.

Sometimes I cut and paste into Word, but then the margins
come out wrong, and ASCII tables containing +-+-+-
strings become strangely augmented with unprintable characters.

So I usually end up having to cut and paste into 
a "programmer's editor", checking manually that the page breaks are OK
(usually fixing a few) and only then printing.

Admittedly this is not too time consuming, but it shows
that commercial tools are not optimized for our ASCII format,
and I wonder if I will be still be able to print at all
in a few years time.

Y(J)S




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