Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:00:52 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com>
Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: How do I read RTF ("Rich Text Format")?
Message-ID: <19980123140052.49550@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980122211429.1647A-100000@acp.qiv.com>; from Jay Nelson on Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 09:21:17PM -0600
References: <19980123132310.09667@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980122211429.1647A-100000@acp.qiv.com>
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On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 09:21:17PM -0600, Jay Nelson wrote: > 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? > > StarOffice can read all but the latest versions. Hmm. I tried this, and got a typical Microsoft-world message, one that I can't even copy and paste (grrr): Errir opening document file: General Error. General input/output error. file(1) says: Rich Text Format data, version 1, ANSI > Andrew has some rtf tools that works better than most. I suppose I should try this. > 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. I can understand the concern. I'm wondering too. > 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.) I think I need to format this document. I've asked the sender to resend it in something portable. Thanks for the reply Greg
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