1. [EUPHORIA (#1998-21)] Re: ".rtf" format
- Posted by Jeff Zeitlin <jeff.zeitlin at MAIL.EXECNET.COM>
Jun 08, 1998
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Last edited Jun 09, 1998
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998 00:00:13 -0400, Einar Mogen
<nord.staernes at ROLLAG.MAIL.TELIA.COM> wrote:
>I have a databaseprogram that runs in dos. It makes output to a =
textfile.
>Since adding printercapability to the program is more pain than gain, =
the
>user opens the file in a windows-based texteditor (Word 6.0) and prints =
it
>from there. I would like to make the output in the ".rtf" format, if =
this
>format is somewhat simple to handle. Does anyone know the format, or can
>point me to some documentation of it?
ISTR downloading it from somewhere on Microsoft's web site; it
was developed by MS for Word, way back when. It's complex; you
_don't_ want to try generating it directly if you can avoid it.
If you're using Word (as opposed to WordPad), why not make sure
that you have the Internet Assistant for Word, and put out HTML -
Word will convert and print it just as well - and IE and Netscape
and Opera and other programs will print it out without
converting.
Next question: do you really need the extended formatting
capabilities of Word or HTML, or would "typewriter-style" text be
acceptable? If the latter, and you don't output more than 64K of
text at once, you could just as easily use Notepad.
--
Jeff Zeitlin
jeff.zeitlin at mail.execnet.com
