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Subject: Re: Real Time IO routines -- answering Simon Wright part 1
From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh+bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>
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On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 22:24 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

More clearly, the following paragraph was meant to show
why a simple output of string values is just as good or
bad as a simple output of S'Image(V).  So when there is
nothing wrong with simple output of, e.g., plain vanilla
text strings, why is there something wrong with simple
output of non-text values?
> For example, tabulation may require narrowing to columns,
> paragraphs might have to be shaped, words truncated etc..
> The circumstances are similar to those requiring numbers
> with Aft, say.