On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 03:42:14PM +1000, Rodos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
>
> > All,
> > are there any RTF (Rich Text Format) viewers for Linux?
> > I get so many of them that I dont wanna ftp all the time from an NT box
> > to download it from a linux box.
>
> Well there is strings. Or you an rtf-fm (read the friendly - fresh
^^^^^^^
Well not possible as RTF by default only contains printable chars
(aka ps) and hence lists the full file ;-)
> meat) which lists two tools based on a search of the word "rtf".
>
> #18: rtf2htm - An RTF to HTML converter which supports tables.
> #19: rtfeeder - Converts rtf files to html files.
I check those ones out, thanks
>
> You could run it through these and pipe into w3m or lynx. A lot of the
> word processing tools for Linux support RTF. I know WP does and SO
> probably does too.
Microsoft is getting me! All I could think of is Word and WordPro
(and the stupid word viewer on windooze boxes) but didnt realize
that I have a copy of WordPerfect for both, linux and nt.
However I tried to read the RTF file on the linux box with WP but that
doesnt do a very good job (all black, five words)........
So much for standards.
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