Hi gang, Yesterday Geoff told us about the production of rtf documents from text documents with enscript. I had just finished preparing a formatted text document of nearly 10000 words and decided to see what happens if I create an RTF document from that formatted text version, and then recover it with rtf2htm and the lynx --dump option. Just for comparison I also asked enscript to create an html document from the same formatted text file, and then I applied lynx with the --dump option on it also. The results are pretty scary. First, here is the wc output of the original file, which gives the line count, the word count, and the byte count: 953 9614 50635 Next, the wc output from the html conversion only: 963 9624 50851 Looks like the document grew by 10 lines, 10 words, and 216 bytes. Finally, here is the wc output from the RTF+html conversion: 704 8045 46841 Examining this converted and reconverted document in an editor reveals gross errors, with some words missing, others concatenated, and whole lines missing throughout the document. I guess the point is - if you plan to use enscript to go the RTF route, you had better watch it closely and double check your work. For me, it has screwed up pretty badly. Chuck *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waxing Crescent (8% of Full)
