I have a large tab-separated text file that I was converting into an HTML file via perl to present to my boss. He, however, wants his output in Word format, but will settle for RTF.

There are a couple of CPAN modules with promising names, but no documentation. RTF::Document seems to be discontinued, though it has the advantage of having an ActiveState port for Win32. I could only find very limited documentation, though, which stressed the pre-alpha nature of said code. RTF::Generator looks really spiffy, and it's even at 1.00, but after installing it on a Linux box (no ActiveState port available), I found out that there is no POD to speak of, nor man files, so I would have to dissect the code to figure out how to use it...

Is there another way, short of wading through Microsoft's fine and well-organized RTF 1.5 specification? Thanks for any insights...

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