Hi David ... on 30 May 97 you wrote,
 DB> BS> However, can you tell me how to read either of the two files
 DB> BS> contained in the EXE (SFX) file?  They are CIR33TXT.RTF and
 DB> BS> CIR33TXT.TXT and both files defy deciphering ...  at least to
 DB> BS> my DOS system.  I remember many years ago that there was an
 DB> BS> "RTF" format for IBM mainframe files called something like
 DB> BS> "Rich Text Format" but surely this can't be that.  The TXT file
 DB> BS> has a lot of high ASCII characters and has no LF/CR controls.
 DB> BS> I tried reading the files using VIEW97A and it thought the TXT
 DB> BS> file might be Wordstar but it was still garbage.
 DB> Yep, a descendant of that rich text format.  I've done a quick and
 DB> dirty conversion (ran the .rtf file through a REXX rtf->html
 DB> converter and then printed the html to a file.).  Pretty quick and
 DB> dirty but should be somewhat readable -- the formatting even when I
 DB> looked at the original .rtf stank.
 DB> Look for CIR33.TXT in the same area where you found CIR33TXT.EXE.
Got the CIR33.TXT file from your BBS and it is somewhat more readable.
Many thanks for the Q&D conversion.  I guess that I will plunk it into
QEdit and reformat it paragraph by paragraph manually!  Oh well, there
is only about 1800 lines :-((
Have you any idea why any responsible manufacturer would put all this
valuable information into an unreadable format?  I wonder what
wordprocessing product these two files were intended to be used with?
Bye for now ... Bob
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