Hi Collective, thanks that was quite helpful, (a little tough though having to read the rtf stuff). your example works fine, but am unable to integrate the stuff & get it working in my code properly yet. - before this i was using /filter to load the file contents into the edit control. here is where i am atm..
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Thankyou.

Code:
        if (%intrpath) {
          did -ra versions 12 {\rtf1\ansi $+ $&
            {\colortbl;\red255\green0\blue0;} $+ $&
            {\fonttbl\f0\Courier new;}\f0\fs24\pard\cf1 $+ $&
          $eval($qt(%intrpath),2) $+ $chr(125) $+ \par
      }