Tried this once before, but I think it got lost when 

the 

FFML 

burped... so I'll try again...

I'm getting ready to post a fanfic on my web page, I've 

got the 'fic 

HTML'd already, but I want to give the option of 

downloading a plain 

version of it in case they want to read it later. 

What's 

the best 

format for this? ASCII, .TXT, etc? I'm using a PC 

(Windows 3.11), but 

I want to make it a format readable by anyone.

Also, I want to include an archived version of the 

whole 

thing. Which 

is more universal, PKZIP or GZip? Or something else?


Any help would be greatly appreciated

Derek

Rick here:
  Text (*.txt) is the most universal type of format other 

than binary every machine and al most all programs can 

use 

it -granted many translate it to something else for use- 
Word perfect is an example of this.
 While .gz is the seen very frequently I think .zip is 
better with the windows and o/s and mac o/s so that is 

what 

I would recomend. Anybody disagree with me.? Certainly a 
decoder for zip is easier to find for the above operating 

systems although winzip will do both.

Rick
rik@cfanet.com

P.S. rick here again
txt is a form of ascii, sorry I didn't catch that before
maybe White Wolf would care to comment on the .gz vs.zip as 
he actually ran an archive for a while.