On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Alex Martelli wrote: [...] > and, as it happens, this is indeed going on (you can write .RTF, which is > an open and documented format equivalent to .DOC from Word's viewpoint, [...] Is it really true that for every .doc there is an .rtf that will look / behave the same when you load it into Word? Useful thing to know, if true. John