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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:09:50 +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:  <19980128120950.34615@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980128123721.53382@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 12:37:21PM %2B1100
References:  <19980128105457.48663@welearn.com.au> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980127184552.1404A-100000@acp.qiv.com> <19980128123721.53382@welearn.com.au>

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On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 12:37:21PM +1100, Sue Blake wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 06:50:55PM -0600, Jay Nelson wrote:
>> Sue,
>>
>> Do you know if the current RTF specs at M$ are valid for the latest
>> iterations of Word?
>
> Sorry, no. And there was two versions of the specs, one a dozen pages and
> one a half inch of paper, and some notes on it when I spent a day
> searching ages ago. If it's still in the paper recycler I'll holler.
>
>> I've bumped into this enough, I may try do do something. Is there any
>> consensus on what output format everyone needs?
>
> I doubt there'd be consensus, but even plain text would help to read email.

It should be pretty straightforward to configure mutt to convert the
text to HTML and display it with Netscape.

Greg



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