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> From: David Knopf [SMTP:david -at- KNOPF -dot- COM]
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> Gila Jones wrote:
> >
> > I'm working on the readme file that goes in the top level of the CD.
> > We've always shipped the readme file as a txt file, but txt supports
> > so few features that I dread it. PDF is not an option, because Unix
> > users don't like it for some peculiar reason. And we don't want to
> > have multiple copies of the readme.
> >
> > Are there other cross-platform options that I haven't thought of?
>
> Well ... there's always HTML
>
While nearly every OS comes with some sort of text reader/editor
installed, the same is not true for software capable of decoding and
displaying HTML.
What I wonder: what kind of "features" are needed for a readme file?
Isn't the point of a readme file to keep it short and simple?
Besides, text files are also easy to display is places such as install
screens, a not uncommon placement.
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