From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 27 17:01:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA28233 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:01:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tok.qiv.com (IQLtkb2UNqOCFk+jcLU0McGqF9TxOX36@tok.qiv.com [204.214.141.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA28220 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:00:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdn@acp.qiv.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with UUCP id TAA25839; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:00:30 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA01417; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:50:56 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:50:55 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson To: Sue Blake cc: Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How do I read RTF ("Rich Text Format")? In-Reply-To: <19980128105457.48663@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Sue, Do you know if the current RTF specs at M$ are valid for the latest iterations of Word? I've bumped into this enough, I may try do do something. Is there any consensus on what output format everyone needs? Troff, TeX? -- Jay On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Sue Blake wrote: >On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 09:51:46AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > >> > StarOffice and a .doc file might be the best way if it's the bad-RTF >> > Word. >> >> I couldn't get StarOffice to even look at the document. Didn't I say >> that in my original message. > >Lemme try that again :-) It could be because the RTF was produced by the >version of Word which doesn't do proper RTF (Word 6 or 7?). In that case, if >you want to read it in StarOffice you'd be better off asking for a file in >its original Word (*.doc) format. > > >-- > >Regards, > -*Sue*- >