Microsoft KB Archive/69074

History of DOS Word DCA-RFT Conversion Utilities

PSS ID Number: Q69074 Article last modified on 09-26-1995

3.x 4.00 5.x

MS-DOS

Summary:

The following is a listing (in reverse chronological order) of the IBM Revisable-Form-Text Document Content Architecture (DCA-RFT) document conversion utilities released throughout the history of Microsoft Word. DCA-RFT is a format supported by IBM DisplayWrite and several other word processors.

More Information:

Word Version 5.50 - October 1990
WORD_DCA.EXE (size 25533, date 10-04-90) Converts documents from DCA-RFT to Word version 5.50 format and vice versa. The utility is located on the Word 5.50 Utilities 1 disk and is discussed on pages 629-636 of the “Using Microsoft Word” version 5.50 manual.

Note: The DCA program, WORD_DCA, requires two other programs (located on the Utilities 1 disk), depending upon the operating environment (DOS or OS/2). When operating under DOS, the programs are as follows:

RTF_DOS.EXE (size 107741, date 10-04-90) DCA_RTF.EXE (size 140527, date 10-04-90)

When operating under OS/2, the programs are as follows:

RTF_OS2.EXE (size 110433, date 10-04-90) DCA_RTFP.EXE (size 144083, date 10-04-90)

Word Version 5.00b - March 1990
WORD_DCA.EXE (size 160329, date 03-30-90) Same as for Word 5.00

Word Version 5.00a - October 1989
WORD_DCA.EXE (size 160329, date 10-23-89) Same as for Word 5.00

Word Version 5.00 - April 1989
WORD_DCA.EXE (size 160329, date 04-26-89) Converts documents from DCA-RFT to Word version 5.00 format and vice versa. The utility is located on the Word 5.00 Utilities 3 disk and is discussed on pages 207-211 of the “Reference to Microsoft Word” version 5.00 manual.

Word Version 4.00 - September 1987
WORD_DCA.EXE (size 125315, date 09-03-87) Converts documents from DCA-RFT to Word version 4.00 format and vice versa. The utility is located on the Word 4.00 Utilities/Setup disk and is discussed on pages 189-192 of the “Reference to Microsoft Word” version 4.00 manual.

Word Version 3.11 - March 1987
RFTOWORD.EXE (size 21466, date 10-17-86) Unchanged since its original release with Word version 3.10. The utility is located on the Word 3.11 Utilities disk and is discussed on pages 198-200 of the Word 3.11 manual.

WORDTORF.EXE (size 24474, date 10-17-86) Unchanged since its original release with Word version 3.10. The utility is located on the Word 3.11 Utilities disk and is discussed on pages 200-206 of the Word 3.11 manual.

Word Version 3.10 - October 1986
RFTOWORD.EXE (size 21466, date 10-17-86) Converts from DCA-RFT to Word version 3.10 format. The utility is located on the Word 3.10 Utilities disk and is discussed on pages 198-200 of the Word 3.10 manual.

WORDTORF.EXE (size 24474, date 10-17-86) Converts Word version 3.10 documents to DCA-RFT format. The utility is located on the Word 3.10 Utilities disk and is discussed on pages 200-206 of the Word 3.10 manual.

Word Version 3.00 - March 1986
RFTOWORD.EXE (size 57272, date 04-04-86) Converts from DCA-RFT to Word version 3.00 format. The utility is located on the Word 3.00 Utilities disk and is not discussed in the Word 3.00 manual due to a documentation error.

WORDTORF.EXE (size 48734, date 04-04-86) Converts Word version 3.00 documents to DCA-RFT format. The utility is located on the Word 3.00 Utilities disk and is not discussed in the Word 3.00 manual due to a documentation error.

Utilities for performing conversions to and from DCA-RFT did not exist for any previous versions of Word.

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