Re: Any better rich-text viewers out there?

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From: Keith Moore
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 01:21

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In article <1993Jan4.102716.12291@lth.se>, kurt@dna.lth.se (Kurt Swanson) writes:
> I just installed metamail on my SPARCstation 2.  While generally happy
> with this, I noticed that metamail doesn't have a good method for
> displaying rich text format mail...  It seems only to try to use that
> which is available with the standard shelltool/xterm/whatever...  That
> leaves out color, italics, amongst others...  Is ther anything better?

If you have groff, you can install my richtext to groff converter, and
use the gxditview previewer to view richtext messages.  It supports
most of the features defined in RFC 1341.  Anonymous ftp to
cs.utk.edu, directory pub/MIME, files "richtogroff.c" and
"richtogroff.README".

> Also, is the rich text format found on NeXT machines a broader format?
> It seems to have definitions for fonts & other things.  

NeXT uses a variant of Microsoft's RTF (for "Rich Text Format").  They
aren't related and the similarity of names is unfortunate.  MIME's
richtext is designed to be relatively simple -- just enough to add a
bit of expressability to email messages.  As I understand it, RTF is
designed to allow interchange of documents between various word
processors.

--
Keith Moore / U.Tenn CS Dept / 107 Ayres Hall / Knoxville TN  37996-1301
Internet: moore@cs.utk.edu      BITNET: moore@utkvx
UNIX is your brain..............SYSV is your brain on drugs.

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