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Subject:QUESTION: cross-platform file formats From:Gila Jones <majones -at- EXO -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 5 Nov 1997 18:57:21 -0700
I haven't seen anything much about this in the archives...
I work for a s/w company that sells both Unix and Windows products.
We ship our products on CDs. Software for all platforms comes on the
same CD.
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?
