Re: [NTLK] RTF

From: Jeremy Bond Shepherd (jbond_at_eskimo.com)
Date: Fri Aug 24 2001 - 13:23:14 EDT


At 10:43 PM 8/23/01, you wrote:
> >But don't EVER forget, (and X-Port supports this) there's the
> "standard"
> >RTF and the "Microsoft bastardization of the RTF standard"
> RTF. This is
> >why sometimes NCU chokes on an MS RTF file, whereas Xport wil
> handle it.
>
>
>oops did forget to mention that ( thanks Mark )
>.....must remember not to assume that everybody knows that when
>we say
>"standard"
>We mean the two global standards, Micro$oft and Rest of the
>World ;-)

Well, that's all lovely rhetoric, but in actuality RTF is a
Microsoft standard. They invented it, they publish and maintain
the spec.

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnrtfspec/html/rtfspec_1.asp>

-Jeremy

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