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Liam,
Thankfully, floppy disks seem to be down to about 1 per
month. Every time you think they are gone for good... a
new one seems to arrive in the mail.. :-(
David
Quoting Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 07:30:13AM +1100, david.lyon@computergrid.net wrote:
> > Elliotte,
> >
> > You'd be surprised the number of companies that still
> > use floppy disks to send out data. So many find they
> > can use CSV because it fits on a floppy, and are unable
> > to use xml because it won't fit.
>
> Of course, if they could compress the XML file with gzip (or if
> their application did this for them, as OpenOffice and AbiWord can,
> for example) the file would probably be even smaller.
>
> But I accept that such an approach may create a human training problem.
>
> Liam
>
> --
> Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
> http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
>
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