Re: DisplayWrite/36 to Word -- MIDRANGE-L

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Al,

At 8/16/00 06:20 PM -0400, you wrote:

At 05:23 PM 8/16/00 -0400, you wrote:

I've been asked to convert DisplayWrite36 files (on an AS400) to MS-Word. I don't have access to the machine yet. Is it just text? Can I copy to Word as a .rtf?
A few years ago, we wrote a tool internally that converted Text Management/38 into .rtf. I don't know what DisplayWrite/36 looks like, but I suspect that my utility might be able to be converted.

I've seen this error several times, so I'd like to set the record straight:
.RTF = Rich Text Format
.RFT = Revisable Format Text (as opposed to .FFT = Final Format Text)

The latter is IBM's "Displaywrite" format. The former is a popular PC document format. This is important, since both are valid and you need the proper converter / filter on the PC.

-mark

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