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- From: gilbertd@chipmunk.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert)
- Subject: List of RTF capable wordprocessors
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- Organization: Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:26:54 GMT
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- RTF (Rich Text Format) capable wordprocessors:
-
- Platform Wordprocessor Version
- -------- --------------- ----------------
- Mac Microsoft Word all versions
- Mac WordPerfect 1?, 2 (current)
- Mac WriteNow 2,3 (current)
- Mac MacWrite II (current)
-
- MS-DOS Microsoft Word all versions (?)
- MS-DOS WordPerfect The version we have does not. 3.1?
- MS-DOS AmiPro (Lotus) 2 and 3 Better that Word Perfect
-
- MS-Windows Microsoft Word all versions
- MS-Windows WordPerfect current
- MS-Windows Dagesh 1.0
-
- NeXT WriteNow current
- NeXT WordPerfect (Not yet?)
-
- Acorn RISCOS !Impression with Business package
-
- Sun WordPerfect Not yet
-
- XWindows WordPerfect Not yet
- XWindows Framemaker (maybe, not verified)
- XWindows Andrew User Interface System
-
- Unix command-line troff/ditroff any - using troff2rtf and rtf2troff
-
- -----------
- XWindows = various Unix computers with xwindows unless specified.
- troff2rtf and rtf2troff are available by ftp from ftp.primate.wisc.edu.
- Wayne Rindone registered a request with WordPerfect corp to have
- them add RTF to their XWin-Unix versions.
-
- In article <BzJ4ot.6vp@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> I wrote:
- >I am looking at RTF (Rich Text Format, specified by Microsoft)
- >as a possible cross-platform, cross-wordprocessor interchange
- >format for documents.
- >...
- >Anyone who knows of other word processors that can read/write RTF
- >format, please advise me. I'll repost a summary of responses.
-
- Thanks to all who replied, including:
- Charles Loader <charles@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
- Tom Gordon <thomas@hera.gmd.de>
- Wilfred.Hansen@cs.cmu.edu
- johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
- P A Viton <pviton@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- rindone%morgan@harvard.harvard.edu (Wayne P Rindone)
- David Fox <dfox@quack.sac.ca.us>
- warren@itexjct.jct.ac.il (Warren Burstein)
- daved@physiol.su.oz.au (Dave Davey)
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-
- --
- Don Gilbert gilbert@bio.indiana.edu
- biocomputing office, biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405
-