RTF stands for "Rich Text Format". It was originally developed by Microsoft
and is readable by most of their word processors as well as NT word processors
from Corel/Word Perfect, Adobe PageMaker and others.
Most of the developers here have upgraded from NT to some form of UNIX. We
generally use FrameMaker to read RTF in on Solaris, AIX or HP-UX. On Linux
there is a word processor from Caldera as well as some TeX-related freeware
which will read in RTF (don't know much first-hand about these). There are
also some tools which dump RTF directly into text, although you loose the
formatting.
If none of the above are convenient, I would be glad to dump the RTF into
Adobe's PDF, which is readily accessible from Acrobat Reader or Exchange.
Best regards, John
At 08:20 AM 12/11/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Do you have any suggestions for what tool I can use on UNIX for reading an
RTF
>document?
>
>Is there some simpler form in which you can deliver the document that won't
>require me to hunt down software over the web just to be able to read it?
>
>/Steve
>
John Willis
FTL Systems, Inc. jwillis@ftlsys.com
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