Hello all,
A few more replies came in since my original sumnmary (below).
John Venier <venier_at_odin.mdacc.tmc.edu> pointed me to:
http://wheel.compose.cs.cmu.edu:8001/cgi-bin/browse/objweb
This is something that warrants a look by just about anybody.
It is an online file format converter - enter the name of a file
in your directory, select what kind it is (ps, html, almost anything)
select what you want it converted to, push button, get conversion.
It is pretty cool!
Daniel Monjar <dam_at_orgtek.com> pointed me to:
http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/#rtf
This is a collection of freeware programs including a rtf reader
(I tried a couple of quick runs to get it to Make, but no success)
Richard Loken <tech_at_athabascau.ca> likes the idea proposed by a
few others (including myself) that the rtf senders should be
banished from the Kingdom.
Well, so much for that - back to the real work...
rich
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Thanks to:
Ian Mortimer <ian_at_physics.uq.edu.au>
Graham Van Epps <gvanepps_at_compurex.com>
"Smith, Steve" <Steve.Smith_at_CommerzbankIB.com>
and the ever insightful
"Dr. Thomas.Blinn_at_Compaq.com" <tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com>
Ian Mortimer pointed me towards TED at
http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/index.html
This is a rich text processor for Unix. I think I'll give it a try, but
it is likely to still require some manual intervention.
Other comments ranged from using a PC like the rest of the world, to
writing a script to extract all the rtf notation to essentially
continuing to ignore the d_at_mned rtf messages.
original post:
Hello,
I read and write my mail using my tru64 system. We seem to have a lot
of folks submitting their mail in rich text format. I usually just
ignore them. On occasion I save the message as text, then point
Netscape at the text file so I can read it without having to parse
the message out of the medium.
I was wondering if anybody had a better method of reading the rtf
messages on our Dec systems?
Thanks,
rich
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