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From: dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae)
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Subject: Mac to NeXT RTF problems
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Date: 15 Feb 91 19:17:06 GMT
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Has anyone else out there had problems transferring Macintosh
RTF documents to their NeXTs? When I did it, all my quote
marks (and some other characters) appeared as non-typeable,
very strange characters. I've written a simple filter program
to take care of the bad RTF definitions I've found so far;
if you'd like a copy of the source code, please email me:
 
   dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu

and I'll send it to you.

The basic problem is that Mac and NeXT RTF define a lot of
non-ascii characters differently--all you have to do is
go through the RTF (ascii) file and change the 'escape' 
sequences. The source code has more information on this.