How to convert plain ASCII text file to RTF?

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Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:38:18 -0800

I have a file in plain text format, and I need to e-mail it to somebody
who accepts only MS-Word and RTF. Obviously there's no way to create a
MS-Word file here on Unix, so I need a way to convert the file to RTF.
Is there any Unix utility that would do that automatically?
Alternately, does anybody know what minimal RTF header etc. I can
manually add with a text editor to fake a minimal RTF file?

I did a Google search but the closest I could find was a java program
to write a "hello world" RTF file, but it wouldn't compile because it
required classes such as com.lowagie.text.Document which are not in the
standard java 1.2.2 distribution here on this FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE ISP.

I found the RTF 1.5 specification, but it's very large, with many
header fields, but no idea what the minimal header would be nor how to
specify plain text fixed-pitch font with everything pre-formatted with
hard newlines so that I could just stick a header in front of the
plain-text file to make it work as RTF.

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