From lauson@cs.unm.edu Thu Feb 23 13:11:32 1995 Received: from mimbres.cs.unm.edu ([198.59.151.2]) by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA23290 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Fri, 24 Feb 1995 04:11:39 +0100 Received: from chaco.cs.unm.edu by mimbres.cs.unm.edu (5.65/033093) with SMTP id ; Thu, 23 Feb 95 20:11:32 -0700 Received: by chaco.cs.unm.edu (5.65/011293) id AA22323; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 20:11:32 -0700 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 20:11:32 -0700 From: lauson@cs.unm.edu Message-Id: <9502240311.AA22323@chaco.cs.unm.edu> To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: Document Form X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 In regard to "6.USAGE OF COMPRESSION UTILITIES Under investigation." Since Section (or Clause) 3 specifies formatting and filing systems be compatible with the DOS 5.0 and higher operating systems, why not specify gzip/gunzip? They are readily available (I believe they are part of the GNU project) in UNIX, DOS, and MAC versions. Re "7.DIRECT ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION" [ Under investigation." Seems to me we are already doing this with the ncsa server. AND - I suggest that X3J3 not worry these matters until WG5 directs us otherwise. X3J3 submits a CD to WG5 - it eventually (probably with changes) becomes a DIS, but WG5 submits the DIS, not X3J3. (So I'm quibbling - it's a lot more 'fun' than all the editing I've been doing lately.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hank / Herrick S. Lauson Past-President & Newsletter Publisher, 7711 Euclid Ave, NE Rio Grande Chapter of the ACM Albuquerque, NM 87110-4803 Editor, X3J3 (Fortran) Committee (505)298-2769 lauson@cs.unm.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------