On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:52:20PM -0500, Joe Moore wrote: > Well, since the FDL has taken the term "transparent", how about if we call > the output of tr (or gzip or indent) as "translucent forms". These are > derived work that can be mechanically derived from the source form, and > can be mechanically transformed back to the source form (or near > equivalent) We could take a hint from HTTP and call them "transport encodings". Richard Braakman