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Subject:Re[2]: Generic formats From:Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM Date:Thu, 18 Jul 1996 07:00:00 -0600
[Don't tell anyone, but RTF's ^first name^ is MS.]
Yep. And RTF seems to change every time a new version of Word comes out,
making it not as reliable an interchange format as could be hoped for.
Try this: Save a file with an embedded graphic in RTF from Word. Open it
with Ami Pro. No graphic! Open it with Mac Word. There's the graphic!
RTF is a nice interchange format in theory, but only MS seems to get it
right, probably because only MS knows what the feature set is at any given
point in time.
Have fun,
Arlen
arlen -dot- p -dot- walker -at- jci -dot- com
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