Re: FAQ issues: round 3

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From: Andy Newman
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 06:07

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ssircar@canon.com (Subrata Sircar) writes:
>greg@afs.com writes:
>RTF and NewsGrazer posts are slightly different; NewsGrazer has a plain-text
>version and an RTF version of the contents.  Both can generally be transferred
>to a NeXT machine either electronically or physically (via floppy/OD) and then
>read with Edit/NGService.
>

The extra non-ASCII part is *not* RTF! It is a undocumented, NewsGrazer
specific format. Firstly its uuencoded. If you uudecode the "noise"
at the end of NewsGrazer articles it is plainly not RTF. It looks a
bit like RTF but it isn't the same.
-- 
Andy Newman (andy@research.canon.oz.au)		"int - God's own type"

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From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman)
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Subject: Re: FAQ issues: round 3
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