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- From: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu (Tim Arnold)
- Subject: GIF standard and textmarkup question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.141715.24894@ncsu.edu>
- Originator: arnold@esssc4.stat.ncsu.edu
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- Organization: Department of Statistics, NCSU
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:17:15 GMT
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- I am setting up gopher and xgopher to be used by
- remote readers of an electronic journal. Equations
- tables, text, and graphics will be included, as far
- as that is possible.
-
- Now, the questions:
- gopher1.02.GIF and xgopher1.1.GIF; Do these
- have the blessing of the gopher community,with
- the somewhat different method of supporting
- the gif-type link?
-
- Wouldn't a type of "image/gif" or "image/tiff", like
- the MIME reference make more sense? What does the
- gopher management think? Is there interest in a documenting
- a standard?
-
- Second and related question:
- Electronic info systems are here to stay blah blah,
- we all know that. There are initiatives in different
- parts of cyberspace to support SGML (Standard Generalized
- Markup Language) as a standard in information retrieval
- and indexing systems. So where does gopher stand here?
-
- It seems to me that we need yet another doc type, say
- text/sgml or text/rtf etc.
-
- I'm not trying to create more work (I'm willing to start the
- coding now, myself) but I'd like to see what I think of as
- a wonderful tool being used in more serious/ambitious ways.
-
- The metamail system, built to take advantage of the MIME standards
- understands many different "types" and each installation of metamail
- has a table lookup file to know if the local machine can display
- a particular type, and if so, how.
-
- That's what I'm thinking, please let me know what you think.
- -- Tim
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