Subject: re:[comment on form] [Q][Kinda Spam] Question about posting 'fics on the web
From: Richard Robinson
Date: 5/29/1997, 10:30 PM
Reply-to:
rik@cfanet.com

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Also, I want to include an archived version of the whole 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 almost 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