On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:39:55PM -0600, Dan Churchill wrote: > I guess I didn't realize just where rich text format originated, but to be > fair, this is at least one "standard" which M$ has released so that other > people can use it. I found the definition online at: > http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone22/cat187/2602.htm > > Of course, in true M$ fashion, the legalese gives them the right to basically > change it for no good reason and not tell anyone, which quite possibly has > happened . . . I wouldn't know, as I almost never use it, and have never > needed to write programs to read or write it. I'm fairly sure that it has, since I've heard a number of comments over the years about "this is what the RTF spec says, but the _real_ standard is however Word does it this week". When talking about a proprietary standard, it seems that "proprietary" usually trumps "standard". -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss