BRRRT! ;)
New Deal Office does a decent job of RTF.
RTF can embed images.
~pete
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Bernie wrote:
> >> This is my dilemma. I wanted to send my resume to a local job bank via
> >> email but I don't have word97 and they don't have Wordperfect and never the
> >> twain shall meet. Essentially this means copy the beast into pure text,
> >> paste into notepad and send sans format. Not my preferred solution.
> >> Perhaps HTML would be the appropriate.
>
> >What is wrong with RTF? It leaves some formatting (not frames etc. I
> think). It can be >opened even with Word97 (which can open *.doc fromWord 6
> but not from Word2, MacWords >or DOSWords).
>
> RTF is bad since there are few viewers for this type of file. View is the
> only DOS program I've seen. HTML have several versions for all OS.
> The problem with HTML is that the images aren't icnluded in the HTML file
> so people might forget to copy them to a floppy (My dad did this once).
> This is the only place where DOC can perhaps be better.
> Ok, RTF solved a problem when Word 6 couldn't open a Word 95 file, but
> other than that it's not any good. Also all users don't have all the
> converters installed (why install something you wouldn't need?)
> //Bernie
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