In terminal there is a nifty application called textutil. It can convert one text format into another.
To use it is very simple: textutil -convert format filenameThe format is the desired format, so the document in question would be if one wanted a "doc" file from the "rtf" file.
textutil -convert doc filename.rtf It handles these formats: (txt, rtf, rtfd, html, doc, docx, odt, wordml, or webarchive) XB
