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Quoting Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx>: > Rob Beard wrote: > Just had a look and can't find where windows XP has hidden the exe file > for wordpad.exe (or what ever the exe file is actually called) however > It should work,. > Not sure off the top of my head, I'll have a look in a minute. (Just booted up into Ubuntu for 5 minutes to try something). > what exactly is rtf, is this text format, but with the CR / LF > handelled differently, > It is Rich Text Format. I'm not sure if it is exclusive to Microsoft or what but I remember it from the early days of Windows. From what I understand it is text but with formatting commands for fonts and different styles. I am pretty certain it supports embedded images too. You can find out more about it here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rtf (actually, reading that wiki page a bit I see it was developed my Microsoft and DEC). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html