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Text Input and Output Formats

The text system provides a convenient interface to the file system that enables you to read, display, and write files in the text formats described in Table 1.

**Table 1** Text system input and output formats
Format	Description
Plain Text	Characters unaccompanied by attribute information.
Rich Text Format (RTF)	Character and attribute information expressed in Rich Text Format (RTF). See the Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification by Microsoft Corporation for more information.
Rich Text Format Directory (RTFD)	Character and attribute information expressed in Rich Text Format and stored in a directory along with the images and other attachments that are embedded in the text.

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