On Tuesday 14 December 2004 15:44, Claudia Gere wrote: > The contract calls for "the complete manuscript on 3.5" > computer disks in either MAC format or ASCII readable format." ASCII is just plain text. In MS Word, just do file -> save as and pick plain text as the format. There are differences between MS, Mac, GNU/Linux in plain text (mainly in how they choose to encode the end of a line), but I would guess a Mac can read a MS plain text file. Regards, -- Mark Bucciarelli, www.hubcapconsulting.com GNU/Linux user #266,902 at http://counter.li.org