The anti-MS Word and Power-point signature tagline.

[Janina Sajka]

You have several options with rtf, most of them quite good.


unrtf is available as a .deb for Debian systems.
rtf2html is the one I have on my Fedora systems.

I'm sure there are others. Try Google:

rtf text html Linux

and see what you get.

Toby Fisher writes:
> Hi folks.
> 
> As many of you do, I used to use the tag line about not sending Word or 
> Ppt files, however I've discovered a rather unfortunate side-effect, and 
> was wondering if it's afflicted anyone else.
> 
> I have to take delivery of quite a lot of docs from people who use MS 
> Office, and after seeing my signature, they try to be kind by sending me 
> an rtf document.  At least with a Word doc, you can do:
> 
> cat foo.doc |strings |less
> and get pretty much all of the text together and it's readable; but what 
> the *#@! do you do about an rtf file which is much bigger, and has loads 
> of crap between all the words?
> 
> Just wondering.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> p.s. you'll notice I've removed it now, not least because I now have a 
> Windows lap top that was paid for.
> 
> 
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