QR-Tekst

File Format
Name	QR-Tekst
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Document Word Processor QR-Tekst
Extension(s)	.qrt

QR-Tekst was a word processor developed by the Polish company Malkom, for the Polish market. It was originally released for DOS. A Windows version 1.0 followed in 1993. The final release, version 2.0 for Windows, came out in 1994.

Back in its day, QR-Tekst was widely used in various Polish government institutions, including the Parliament.

Native document format

QR-Tekst's native file format uses the .qrt extension. The format varies between versions of the program; QR-Tekst for Windows 2.0 offers three different save options corresponding to:

• QR-Tekst 5.1 (DOS),
• QR-Tekst for Windows 1.0,
• QR-Tekst for Windows 2.0.

QR-Tekst 2.0 can also save and open documents in other popular formats of its day, including the native format of Cyfroset, a Polish desktop publishing program.

Other associated formats

A fresh installation of QR-Tekst 2.0 includes files with several other unique types:

• Template files (.std): Pre-made document templates. Their structure appears to be very similar to .qrt files.
• Dictionary files: Used by the built-in spellchecker. QR-Tekst for Windows 2.0 includes the files SLOWNIK1.POL, SLOWNIK.GER, and SLOWNIK1.ENG, corresponding to Polish, German, and English dictionaries, respectively. There are also several extra *.pol files containing grammatical suffixes, probably to help the spellchecker to recognize inflected forms of Polish words. The package also includes a file SYNONIMY.POL, which is used by the program's thesaurus function.
• Conversion instructions (.cnv): Files which instruct QR-Tekst how to convert between various text formats and encodings. They use a simple, human-readable format.

Links

• QR-Tekst (Wikipedia - in Polish)
• QR-Tekst 2.0 download (at the Internet Archive)
  • Same file, available at Vetusware.com