On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Joel Schneider wrote: > 2. What document processing program would you recommend for me if I > absolutely need to be able to easily access all of the documents 10 or > 15 years from now? I would think that .HTML is a good bet, as it is a very open standard and so one should not have to worry about the vendor going away in 10-15 years > 3. Why not store the documents in rich text format instead of using > Word's proprietary .doc format? If my understanding is correct, at > least RTF is a published (non-secret) file format. RTF is still (c) microsoft iirc, and at its best when MS was still using RTF it was a ery moiving target, RTF that came in WordPad was not compatable with RTF that came in word 97 or MS Write of Windows 3.1 infamy -munir