Aaah. The value of this tool (which I am imagining through my experience of a tool called txt2html) is that it recognises common text formatting conventions (which can vary from page to page) and converts them into markup which is richer and more explicit. If it is a reasonably good tool, and txt2html certainly is, so I imagine it will be, it is useful. cheers Chaals On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Dave Mielke wrote: [quoted lines by Martin G. McCormick on January 11, 2002, at 10:39] > I send and receive ASCII files all the time and people >use them, but just as we would rather get sound files we can >play and text files we can read without doubling the cost of our >work stations or going to a lot of various other forms of hassle, >the general user community wants stuff they can use without a lot >of trouble. But a Word user can already use a plain text file, so I'm still trying to understand what's so great about a tool which converts a plain text file, which already is Word-usable, into another format. Nothing is gained, which makes the tool entirely useless. -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)