Re: How to convert plain ASCII text file to RTF?

From: Mark South (marksouth_at_null.invalid)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:35:40 +0100

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:58:12 -0600, james <at> hal-pc.org wrote:

> tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote:
>> Obviously there's no way to create a MS-Word file here on Unix,

Well, not an Actual MS-Word File, but one that it can read can be done so
you are, happily,
 
> wrong. there are several tools to do it. AbiWord OpenOffice

The second of those will takes ages to build :-)

They both will do all sorts of MS-Word .DOC flavours as well as .RTF. You
could also confuse your Word-only colleague by sending a .PDF ....

> i'm sure there are even command line tools to generate Werd
> files as well.

You could use txt2tex and tex2rtf if those still exist. 

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Mark South: World Citizen, Net Denizen