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From: spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky)
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Subject: Re: .RTF files. Can WordPerfect be used to create them instead of Word?
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Date: 18 Dec 90 05:51:26 GMT
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In article <1990Dec18.044017.17533@eng.umd.edu> burgoyne@eng.umd.edu (John R. Burgoyne) writes:
>Has anyone successfully created other than trivial .RTF
>files using something other than one of the Word family
>of word processors?

If you get the Word for Windows Technical Reference manual ($20 or so
from Microsoft Press) there is a complete description of the .RTF
format. With this in hand you shouldn't have too much trouble writing
your own .RTF files (they are straight ASCII).

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