On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 21:50, dave mallery wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, John F wrote: > > > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > > >On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:23:34AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > > > >>I'm trying to educate some users on the dangers of proprietary file > > >>formats. But to make sure I've got my facts right, I need to ask: Is the > > >>Rich Text Format (.rtf) an open standard? (In other words, can I say [snip] > > I though RTF was actually an IBM invention, and was a response to > > Adobe's PostScript. > > > > I could well be wrong though. I seem to recall that RTF existed in IBM > > in 1992 anyway. > > > > i havent seen anyone mention XML. both star and open office now use it. > it is open by default.
AbiWord uses XML, and all the data is "encoded" in text, whereas OO/SO stores it's data in binary format. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements | | and make them into big productions." | | Pitr Dubovitch | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
