On or near 11/10/00 4:17 PM, Christian Thomas at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> I believe that the MS RichText format predated HTML.
Definitely. Word 5.1 recognizes it, and it came out in 1992 I believe. It
had been around some time before that.
>
> I'm not sure but if that is the case why is Outlook on windows the only
> email package that uses it???
Probably because RTF was a format developed by Microsoft. It has been a
nearly universally recognized format for word-processing software. Even
AppleWorks will read an RTF file.
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