[rfc-i] The page length of the first page in the RFC series

[Joe Touch]

Keith Moore wrote:
>> Well, I don't see how you can say this is an bug in MS, to me it seems 
>> to be a bug in the produced RFCs. They don't have the same number of 
>> lines with text.
> 
> That's the whole point in using form feeds - so that all of the pages 
> don't have to have exactly the same number of lines of text, and so that 
> the document will still print with its text aligned on output pages 
> given different type and media sizes.
> 
>> Are you saying that this is an result of my side using MS or the 
>> RFC-editor running MS?
> 
> There's nothing wrong with the RFC's
> 
> RFC document format worked extremely well across the much wider variety 
> of character sizes and file formats that were in use in the mid-1970s 
> when RFCs began to be written, and continued to work just fine on every 
> platform until Microsoft stopped supporting the ability of its OS to 
> print ASCII.

It's not Micrsoft OS - it is the application.

Try saving the file to the desktop; open with "Wordpad", then print as
usual.

I don't know why neither IE nor Firefox 'do the right thing' when
rendering ASCII to PS/PCL or whatever your printer takes. I tested
Wordpad with a Brother and an IBM printer, and it does fine. I inserted
^Ls (using xemacs) and then print-previewed and printed it using
Wordpad; both work fine.

Joe

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