Re: hyperRTF?

Andrew McRae <mcrae@elmer.harvard.edu>

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Hello, world.
On Sat, 18 Jun 1994, Nathan Torkington wrote:

> I see (comp.archives) that a cross-platform RTF viewer is now
> available.  Is it time we thought of turning those people who want
> control of presentation over to using RTF, and incorporate RTF support
> (with minimal extensions, possibly as invisible text or similar) to
> include hypertextual linking.

The posting to comp.archives includes the following note: 

> History
> June 1994, v 0.1.  first release to public, along with GopherPup v 0.2
> that supports network RTF.

GopherPup is a cross-platform (Mac/X/MSWindows) Gopher+ client; "network
RTF" is RTF extended to include HTML-style hyperlinks. Current versions
are in <ftp://ftp.bio.indiana.edu./util/gopher/gopherpup>

(I _hope_ that's not old news to everyone!)
Andrew.
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