Re: FAQ issues: round 3 (NewsGrazer format)

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From: Scott Anguish
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 21:57

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Andy Newman writes
> 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.


	NewsGrazer format IS documented.  Maybe not completely, but it is.

	Check out the Help panel.  Its is in the Posting Articles section.

	
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