> I'm astounded to learn that MacOS X is using this format widely.  Is it
> true?  Are you sure it's the same "rich text format" that MS has been
> pushing?  It certainly cannot be the exact some content, since MS RTF 
> is
> (or used tobe) unreadable without using MS code.  I would have expected
> the situation more as, "Microsoft is emiting this junk, so we had 
> better
> do our best to support it".

MacOS X's father is Nextstep, which indeed used RTF as its rich text 
format. It was nice to be able to edit your Objective-C source code 
using rich text, with bold method names and italicized comments.

Jim
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