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

From: Bill Laird (vk2bla_at_northnet.com.au)
Date: 01/01/05 

Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:43:00 +1100

Steven J Masta wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:38:18 -0800, tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote:
>
>
>>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?

> Have fun
> Steve

Kword works for me. Word docs to/ from windoze. Else send text file or
copy/ paste into email.
Open Office may also export to word - imports word stuffs OK...

Koffice best (only?) reason to install kde!

de Bill VK2BLA
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