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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 1996 13:14:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RTF text
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.960225131026.8644D-100000@thurston.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199602251808.TAA27765@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:

> > 
> > Does anyone know any free tool that can read RTF text format?  Maybe 
> > format it in, say, postscript, so I could print it?
> > 
> > I have a big, nearly 400K article a friend wrote and wants me to look at, 
> > but it's using RTF (rich text format?) and I'm stuck.  I think maybe a 
> > lot of the size of the thing is in embedded graphics, which seem to be 
> > encoded in big blocks of hexadecimal chars.
> 
> in ports/print there is rtf2latex (from one inferno to the next :-)
> Doesn't mime handle rtf ? At least MS Word does .

Mime handles RTF, but all that means is I got the RTF from my friend in 
the mail.  I had no tool to handle it, and mime is just transport, not 
handling.  I'm checking out rtf2latex now, thanks for the reference.

> 
> 
> > 
> > ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
> > Chuck Robey                 | Interests include any kind of voice or data 
> > chuckr@eng.umd.edu          | communications topic, C programming, and Unix.
> > 9120 Edmonston Ct #302      |
> > Greenbelt, MD 20770         | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD
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> > 
> > 
> 
> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> 

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Chuck Robey                 | Interests include any kind of voice or data 
chuckr@eng.umd.edu          | communications topic, C programming, and Unix.
9120 Edmonston Ct #302      |
Greenbelt, MD 20770         | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD
(301) 220-2114              | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN!
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