One large file....

[John Swindler]

For what it's worth, we have had some success at PennDOT transmitting 
operating assistance contracts in WORD.rtf (rich text format) to Penna. 
transit agencies.  No reported problems at transit agency end - so far.  
(haven't tried with all "customers", yet)  However, sometimes there were 
problems if contract in WORD.doc format, such as if transit agency using 
Wordperfect at their end.

Also for what it's worth, found that RTF format uses considerably less 
storage space then normal WORD.doc format.  Might be useful for us "old 
timers" who like to store stuff on disk rather then hard drive.

John



>From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: Re: One large file....
>Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:28:36 -0400 (EDT)
>
>On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Jim Holland wrote:
>
> > 	My reference to MS-Word is to the suggestion by Mr. Skuchas for
> > volunteer typists to type selected portions of the 300+ page book so the
> > *whole thing* is then in digital form.  I suggested ASCII instead.
>
>And I agree; All the world is not Word; As you noted, even for the people
>using word it's not always the same version, and Word likes to do
>interchange in "rich text format"; As I recall the II in ASCII stands for
>"information interchange"; It's a good idea unless you really need
>formatting data.
>
>Of course it gets fun when you have tables.
>
>But now I'm getting off-topic.
>
>I'll be going on a trip for work at the end of May; After that if there's
>a volunteer effort I'd be happy to do some typing.
>
>-D
>
>

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