I wrote:
> >   I would [give out RTF-reader source] if I could, 
> >   but it belongs to the company I used to work for. 

Bowerbird wrote:
> what company was that?
> 
> i know you did the test-prep programs for cliffs notes.
> (listees, these are for standardized tests, like the s.a.t. or l.s.a.t.)

Yep, that's the one.  The RTF-reading code was part of an in-house
utility called "Conan" (CONverter/ANalyzer) that allowed our editing
staff to generate test questions using MS Word, including font style
variations, embedded graphics, etc.  They would save the questions as
RTF, then Conan would interpret the RTF and generate output files in a
format readable by our StudyWare test-prep and course-review software.

Conan was, of course, written in FB.  The StudyWare software itself (Mac
version) consists of several executables, of which one was written in
QuickBasic (before I discovered FB!) and the others in FB.  I was busily
trying to rip out the last remnants of QB at about the time Cliffs Notes
Inc decided they could no longer afford to keep a Software Development
Group.  They still sell the software, but it almost certainly will never
be updated.  Despite my attempts to prop up the QB module, it seems to
run less stably with each new release of the MacOS.  Eventually, I
suppose, it just won't run at all, and they'll have to retire that
product line.

- Rick