-=> Quoting Day Brown to Bud Jamison <=-
 DB> Well, Bud. I spoze that is true for most. But I seem to 
 DB> be seeing more permissiveness as time goes on.  after 
 DB> all, the 'other machines' are almost all Macs, which I 
 DB> believe, can install an IBM font easily enough. After 
 DB> all, the Mac's marvelous graphic capability should, I 
 DB> would think, include that relatively trivial task. 
 DB> 
 DB> So what does that leave? Atari? that machine is not 
 DB> stuck in text mode either is it?  What other machines 
 DB> are there, and how much accomodation must the rest of 
 DB> us make for the benefit of aesthetics on such a small 
 DB> number of systems? 
         As far as installing an IBM font on a Mac, it
may be trivial for a techie but for those who are not
into "how the machine works," but simply want to use it,
it may not be trivial and may require looking up all
kinds of documentation to find what you need.
         When I was using a Mac for business purposes,
one of the real annoyances was the fractions--even a
simple fraction such as 1/2 (which is "high ASCII" 171
in an IBM font) did not exist in the Mac fonts and
could be created only by hand with a great deal of
difficulty.  This was a frequent question for articles
in Mac publications discussing how to create decent
looking fractions.  And fraction occur often in business
documents and other general writing.
       There are undoubtedly a lot of TRS-80s, earlier
Apple machines, Commodores and everything else out there
attached to Fidonet.  (And not everyone using Fidonet
is a Sysop or into the technicalities.)
       With the erosion of the number of Fidonet BBS's,
it would seem we would not want to discourage people
genuinely interested in Fidonet but not interested in
the technical side of it. 
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