RE: Dataviz and xyW

[urqurw@xxxxxxxx (Russ W. Urquhart)]

>
> >My kids have MS Office '97 Pro, which includes MSWord (v8, I think -- is there
> >a later version of Word?); and it reads XyWrite-generated RTF quite well.
> Could
> >you elaborate?
> >Robert Holmgren
> >holmgren@xxxxxxxx
>
>
> Well, what can I say? Client after client kept telling me that they
> could not read my RTF files, so now I grind my teeth and go through Word
> (v.6) to send them either Word-generated RTF or .doc files.
>
> The clients, of course, good sheep that they are, all use the latest
> Word versions. (The Japanese ones, though -- maybe that is the
> problem?)
>
> --Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo 
> --"It is astonishing that those who spent decades recounting the
> --'lessons of Vietnam' have themselves failed to heed those lessons."
> --J.Schlesinger "I didn't inhale." B.Clinton
>
>

You raise an interesting problem because i have done some stuff with the RTF format and have looked
at the spec's for the format from M$. According to the last spec i have, which may not be the
latest, each successive version of RTF is supposed to be backward compatible. (Or there is the
convention to make that so! And developer's, etc are encouraged to do so.) When looking at an
RTF file that our WOrd 95 v.7 created, i think that it was backward compatible with the previous
versions.

If you wanted to send me the file, i could try and load it on my end!


FYI


Russ