On 11/12/00 7:08 PM, "Joshua Jabbour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>>> 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.
> 
> 
> And doesn't TextEdit on OS X use this as the default format? I think so...
> So much for MS-only...

I don't think it's the Rich text format that's the problem - it's the
encoding method used to send the RTF (I think).


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