John, On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:18:20 -0500 (CDT), John wrote: > I tried opening a rtf file with less, and I couldn't find the text, just > formatting. The text is there. Trust me. <grin> > I need a console-mode editor. X-window editors are of course useless. When you say "editor", do you mean a program to create RTF files or a program to read RTF files? If you'd like to create RTF files, check "aft": http://www.maplefish.com/todd/aft.html If you'd like something to "read" RTF, just let me know, and I'll try to produce some sort of quick-and-dirty sed filter for you. > When I looked at the books awaiting verification on bookshare.org I > found that they had quite a few in .txt form. That's better... Regards, -- Gil Andre gandre@arkeia.com Technical Writer Arkeia Corp. http://www.arkeia.com