I remember that the RTF Standard was originally developed for use by the
U.S. Navy.
Microsoft "Embraced and Extended" that standard and for all practical
purposes now own it..
But In older versions of Word and Word Perfect, it is referred to as the
Naval RTF Standard.
Regards,
Al Hartman
(Macintosh Emulation List Host)
http://www.topica.com/lists/MacEmuList
At 07:39 PM 8/24/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>At 10:43 PM 8/23/01, you wrote:
> > >But don't EVER forget, (and X-Port supports this) there's the
> > "standard"
> > >RTF and the "Microsoft bastardization of the RTF standard"
> > RTF. This is
> > >why sometimes NCU chokes on an MS RTF file, whereas Xport wil
> > handle it.
> >
> >
> >oops did forget to mention that ( thanks Mark )
> >.....must remember not to assume that everybody knows that when
> >we say
> >"standard"
> >We mean the two global standards, Micro$oft and Rest of the
> >World ;-)
>
>Well, that's all lovely rhetoric, but in actuality RTF is a
>Microsoft standard. They invented it, they publish and maintain
>the spec.
>
><http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnrtfspec/html/rtfspec_1.asp>
>
>-Jeremy
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