From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 22 19:22:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20234 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 19:22:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tok.qiv.com (X6jJ3eoucJFgo8uwJ5TyKrrPsxP6Y9ju@tok.qiv.com [204.214.141.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20213 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 19:22:43 -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 VAA10178; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 21:22:29 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA01685; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 21:21:17 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 21:21:17 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How do I read RTF ("Rich Text Format")? In-Reply-To: <19980123132310.09667@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >Somebody has just sent me a document in RTF, and I can't do much with >it. Does anybody know of software which can decipher this stuff? > >Greg > StarOffice can read all but the latest versions. Andrew has some rtf tools that works better than most. There is also some rtf2??? tools out there that supposedly convert to LaTeX and HTML. I looked at them some time ago and the porting pain outweighed the benifit. M$ recently "enhanced" RTF so I doubt anything will handle rtf out of '95. If there's not too much, you can tr the carriage returns to line feeds and edit most of the markup out. _Most_ rtf files are plain text with markup. (Except for CR instead of LF.) -- Jay