Gil, I've already downloaded AFS from maplefish, as you suggested in your reply to Janina. It looks like it's what I need. I'm reviewing books that have been submitted and fixing errors if necessary. Bookshare.org also has an html category, but I haven't looked at that yet. As for Microsoft's monopoly of desktop computers and the tendency of people to follow the crowd, my response is that democracy is the dictatorship of the majority. John On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Gil Andre wrote: > > 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, > > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703