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Default A modest proposal - RFC Cookbook recipes

ChattyCathy > wrote:

> Sqwertz wrote:
>
>> ChattyCathy > wrote:
>>
>>> IMHO, there must have been
>>> something like that in order to have the cookbook printed in the
>>> first place. If we could find those, it would save a lot of
>>> typing/scanning...

>>
>> It was done in troff using MS's notepad.exe

>
> Ah, how splendidly 80s...


troff was 70's. And yes, I was kidding. It was written
using edlin (wow, now there's a blast from the past - the very
first editor for DOS. I'm surprised I even remembered that one).

-sw

-sw