Microsoft KB Archive/69076

Description of Supported IBM DCA-RFT File Format PSS ID Number: Q69076 Article last modified on 08-10-1993 PSS database name: APpsConV

WINDOWS

Summary:

RFT-DCA (Revisable-Form Text Document Content Architecture) is an IBM file export/transfer format used by many IBM word processing programs on various operating platforms. There are numerous versions of RFT-DCA. The RFT-DCA converters supplied with Microsoft Word for MS-DOS version 4.0 and later, Word for Windows versions 1.x, 2.0, and 2.0a, and Word for the Macintosh versions 4.0 and 5.0 are optimized for the DCA-RFT format specification that is used by IBM DisplayWrite versions 3, 4V1, and 4V2.

Although optimized for these versions of DisplayWrite RFT-DCA export, the converters can read and write RFT-DCA between Word products and DisplayWrite 5, DisplayWrite 5520, DisplayWrite 370, PROFS, DEC All- In-1 Mail, and so on.

More Information:

The DCA-RFT file format was originally created by IBM to accommodate the transfer of documents among IBM’s word processors on various operating platforms, including AS/400, DisplayWrite/36 (DW/36), DisplayWrite Assistant (DWA), and DisplayWrite/370 (DW/370).

Reference(s):

“Document Content Architecture: Revisable-Form-Text Reference Document SC23-0758-1,” Second Edition, August 1986

Additional reference words: 1.0 1.10 1.1a 1.10a 2.0 2.00 2.0a 2.00a 4.0 4.00 5.0 5.00 5.5 5.50 textconv rtfdca

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