dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) (04/06/91)
If anyone has had trouble porting Macintosh or IBM rtf documents to their NeXTs, I have just finished a program that will translate all the 8-bit ascii characters to their proper NeXT representaions (and vice-versa!). fixrtf 3.0 uses an external filter, so you can customize it to whatever platform and character set you're using. I currently have two versions of a mac-next filter that I'm including in the package. The problem in a nutshell: RTF uses special escape sequences to indicate 'extended' ascii characters (accented characters, double quotes, other symbols) and the ascii mapping varies across platforms. fixrtf fixes this. Send me mail if you want a copy. If there's enough interest I'll post this to the sundry ftp archives I'm aware of.... Happy typing! Nik -- / Nik Gervae aka dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu | "It'll be finished next week, \ | CS/Linguistics stud. & NeRD at UM (go blow) | I promise!"--me | | | | | **When all else fails, bug someone who | "Just say an iguana chewed | \ knows (not me!). | up your textbook."--Jason Fox /