From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Wed Nov 12 2003 - 06:39:10 EST
Since Word uses a proprietary format, you can't really do
this - not reliably, anyway.
If you're keen to produce some sort of formatted output
you'd do better to use a common standard. HTML springs
to mind; or RTF.
You can find details of the RTF Specification here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e5b8ebc2-6ad6-49f0-
8c90-e4f763e3f04f&DisplayLang=en
Simon Green
Altria ITSC Europe Ltd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Spalding [mailto:ssaixadm@YAHOO.COM]
> Sent: 11 November 2003 22:05
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: word file creation
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I realize that this isn't an AIX question, but I was
> hoping that maybe one of you scripters out there could
> help me out. I've got a script that's creating a flat
> file with some data in it. I've found that if I put a
> .doc on the end of the file, when I transfer it to my
> desktop, MS Word will open it. Does anyone know how I
> can preformat the file so that certain text will be
> bolded or underlined? I'm not sure how to even start
> on this.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Stephen Spalding
>
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