On Wednesday 13 February 2002 09:50 pm, Terry Houle wrote: > Thanks for the input back Kelly. I was going to say it might be cause I > had used RTF on the message but figured that would make me sound to > ignorant. I think that is the first time in a long time as I had been > using plain text. For some reason then I decided to turn on RTF. > > I always thought RTF was some kind of a generic format that could be read > by most applications. Did not realize it was MS. I guess I didn't realize just where rich text format originated, but to be fair, this is at least one "standard" which M$ has released so that other people can use it. I found the definition online at: http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone22/cat187/2602.htm Of course, in true M$ fashion, the legalese gives them the right to basically change it for no good reason and not tell anyone, which quite possibly has happened . . . I wouldn't know, as I almost never use it, and have never needed to write programs to read or write it. Dan (My, but this thread just refuses to die!)