Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:27:15 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc: Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: How do I read RTF ("Rich Text Format")?
Message-ID: <19980128102715.44989@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980128105457.48663@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 10:54:57AM %2B1100
References: <19980123132310.09667@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980122211429.1647A-100000@acp.qiv.com> <19980128005502.23616@welearn.com.au> <19980128095146.60495@lemis.com> <19980128105457.48663@welearn.com.au>
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On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 10:54:57AM +1100, 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. This was created by Word 98. I was able to convert it to HTML with no difficulty (and no messing around trying to position mouse cursors in boxes which are too small: StarOffice doesn't understand command line arguments). Greg
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