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- From: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
- Subject: Re: Any better rich-text viewers out there?
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 01:21:43 GMT
- Organization: Univ. of Tenn. Computer Science, Knoxville
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- References: <1993Jan4.102716.12291@lth.se>
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- In article <1993Jan4.102716.12291@lth.se>, kurt@dna.lth.se (Kurt Swanson) writes:
- > I just installed metamail on my SPARCstation 2. While generally happy
- > with this, I noticed that metamail doesn't have a good method for
- > displaying rich text format mail... It seems only to try to use that
- > which is available with the standard shelltool/xterm/whatever... That
- > leaves out color, italics, amongst others... Is ther anything better?
-
- If you have groff, you can install my richtext to groff converter, and
- use the gxditview previewer to view richtext messages. It supports
- most of the features defined in RFC 1341. Anonymous ftp to
- cs.utk.edu, directory pub/MIME, files "richtogroff.c" and
- "richtogroff.README".
-
- > Also, is the rich text format found on NeXT machines a broader format?
- > It seems to have definitions for fonts & other things.
-
- NeXT uses a variant of Microsoft's RTF (for "Rich Text Format"). They
- aren't related and the similarity of names is unfortunate. MIME's
- richtext is designed to be relatively simple -- just enough to add a
- bit of expressability to email messages. As I understand it, RTF is
- designed to allow interchange of documents between various word
- processors.
-
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- Keith Moore / U.Tenn CS Dept / 107 Ayres Hall / Knoxville TN 37996-1301
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