Begin forwarded message:
From: Joe 10 <joe@joe10.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: RTF file: TEST NUMBER ONE
Date: July 12, 1997 at 14:37:29 EDT
To: Halltennis@aol.com
Cc: Samuel_K._Tennis
Dad and Sam,
Lets see how this works. Are you still in Miami Dad? I’m sending this to both of you to see how it looks on both platforms. What I did was:1) create a file in Microft Word 6.01
2) Pasted in some text from a document which had bulletts, indents, style sheets and fancy stuff.
3) Sav As… Rich Text Format. The only true DOS choices I had were for Text Only 🙁
4) Took the saved as file (texttest.rtf) and made a .zip out of it with ZipIt 1.3.5, a Mac version of the Zip compression software. Compressing is what I fing critical to getting stuff through the Net. I won’t delve into why unless someone wants to here some Protocol hocus pocus.
Compress, and when sending to Win-Dozers (sorry Sam) use the 8.3 comvention. Eight char for a file name, period, three char extention: .rtf for rich text, .doc for Word, not sure about word Perfect.
Not that I think all this will help; try to look at what I’ve sent. To open through StuffIt you have to open StuffIt, go to the Translate menu, choose “UnZip” and a file selection window appears. Naviagte to the .zip file and click open. A window appears asking which part of the archive you want to unZip. In this case there’s only one choice. When I did it it gave me simple text Icon, so doubleclicking would launch SimpleText, not MS Word. So I drug the file onto my MS Word Application Icon and it opened in Word with a pretty good representation of what I’d pasted in. Some of the Styles got wonked, but I’ve got some projects with similar names for styles…
Let me know what you see. If it works, I’ll send you ZipIt. You can also find it (I imagine) at www.shareware.com
The Word Perfect thing always adds another dimension, so we’ll see how it goes.
Joe
