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List of RTF capable wordprocessors

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From: Don Gilbert
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 18:26
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RTF (Rich Text Format) capable wordprocessors:

Platform       Wordprocessor             Version
--------       ---------------          ----------------
Mac            Microsoft Word           all versions
Mac            WordPerfect              1?, 2 (current)
Mac            WriteNow                 2,3 (current)
Mac            MacWrite II              (current)

MS-DOS         Microsoft Word           all versions (?)
MS-DOS         WordPerfect              The version we have does not. 3.1?
MS-DOS         AmiPro (Lotus)           2 and 3 Better that Word Perfect

MS-Windows     Microsoft Word           all versions
MS-Windows     WordPerfect              current 
MS-Windows     Dagesh                   1.0 

NeXT           WriteNow                 current
NeXT           WordPerfect              (Not yet?)

Acorn RISCOS   !Impression             with Business package

Sun            WordPerfect              Not yet

XWindows       WordPerfect              Not yet
XWindows       Framemaker		(maybe, not verified)
XWindows       Andrew User Interface System

Unix command-line  troff/ditroff        any - using troff2rtf and rtf2troff

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XWindows = various Unix computers with xwindows unless specified.
troff2rtf and rtf2troff are available by ftp from ftp.primate.wisc.edu.
Wayne Rindone registered a request with WordPerfect corp to have
them add RTF to their XWin-Unix versions.

In article <BzJ4ot.6vp@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> I wrote:
>I am looking at RTF (Rich Text Format, specified by Microsoft)
>as a possible  cross-platform, cross-wordprocessor interchange
>format for documents.
>...
>Anyone who knows of other word processors that can read/write RTF
>format, please advise me.  I'll repost a summary of responses.

Thanks to all who replied, including:
 Charles Loader <charles@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
 Tom Gordon <thomas@hera.gmd.de>
 Wilfred.Hansen@cs.cmu.edu
 johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
 P A Viton <pviton@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
 rindone%morgan@harvard.harvard.edu (Wayne P Rindone)
 David Fox <dfox@quack.sac.ca.us>
 warren@itexjct.jct.ac.il (Warren Burstein)
 daved@physiol.su.oz.au (Dave Davey)


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Don Gilbert                                     gilbert@bio.indiana.edu
biocomputing office, biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405
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