RS> I think EBCDIC should be consigned to the garbage bin of history for
 RS> this stuff too. Imagine what a fucking abortion an ASCII diagram would
 RS> turn into. Almost all of the micros have allegedly got IBM PC character
 RS> set support now.

You can think all you like, but EBCDIC machines remain one of the most
important machines still standing.  When you walk into Westpac, CBA etc to
do a transaction, sure enough, it's processed by a mainframe.

 PE>> BTW, you also said you know a lot about gardening. Why not write up
 PE>> something about that, or do you want to draw pictures of trees?

 RS> Its a good example in some ways of just your problem. Many people want
 RS> to choose trees on appearance. Its a bastard of a job with just text.

 RS> As it was with the recipes, what did you end up doing about that ?

Well I now have 10 meg of compressed recipes.  The users seem to be able to
get by fine, reading and writing ASCII recipes (in MealMaster layout). 
BFN.

Paul

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