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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:24:58 +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")?
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On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 12:53:07PM +1100, Sue Blake wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 12:09:50PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> 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:
>
>>>> 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.
>
> Or with lynx on a mouseless 386... yeah, you're right.

I wasn't aware that lynx understood this Netscape trick of being sent
a URL to display.  Does it work?

Greg