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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
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Subject: Re: FullWrite/MakeWrite
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Date: 2 Jun 88 04:58:57 GMT
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In article <328@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> dubois@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu (Old Sneep) writes:
>I am told that someone asked here whether FullWrite can take a plain
>text file with embedded formatting commands and produce a document
>with the ask-for formatting. 

Microsoft has a standard file format for an ascii file with embedded
formatting codes. It is called Microsoft's Rich Text Format.

It is supported by many Mac Word Processors and page layout programs,
which isn't surprising since Microsoft is giving the specs for the format
away (I tried to pay for it, and they sent my cash back.)  If you insist
on paying for it, the format can also be found in:


"More FIle Formats
for Popular PC Software
A Programmer's Reference"

by Jeff Walden,

$24.95 from John Wiley & Sons
605 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10158-0012

Kind of neat for sending formated files to someone who has microsoft word
on a PC, or for opening the RTF as ascii text, editing the format codes,
then turning it back into a fonted Word document.