APPLICATION INTERCHANGE FILE FORMATS
Simple tutorial for programmers


This site provides a tutorial on how to use RTF and SYLK files when generating output from a database or other application.

  1. RTF - Rich Text Format (Basics)

  2. RTF - Rich Text Format (Working with fonts and tabs)

  3. RTF - Rich Text Format (Working with tables)

  4. SYLK - SYmbolic LinK

Other how-to tutourial guides by example
  1. BASH script (Basics)

Other projects of Interest
  1. MythDora (MythTV implementation)

  2. Weather Station reporting current conditions (wViewWeather.com implementation)

  3. Trixbox (Asterisk PBX implementation)

  4. High speed photography. Slow motion effect with high speed video is shown with Newton's Cradle


My favorite text editor is PFE. To view and edit a file at the byte level I use HexEdit. I do all my DOS programming with TurboPascal V3.02. For Windows and the Mac almost eveything I do can be expressed as a database so I use the ACI 4D product. This website was created with the Macromedia HomeSite 5 HTML Editor. I also find it useful to turn off the auto correct features within Word and also to turn off the spelling and grammer checking. More to come as I work through this development exercise. Comments Welcome


Tony Di Bona     (Updated - April 2009)