On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Dave Mielke wrote: > >Why? Because .RTF or HTML files can be a little bit more > >pleasant to read -- > > And many, many other reasons. > > That, of course, wasn't my question. My question was why a person would want to > have a Linux tool which converted simple text into Word. That's just not > useful. The point is: converting ASCII into a .doc format, does nothing to change the document. It just makes the file format word native--it does nothing to make the text "look better". Luke