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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

731.0. "Question re DT Wordperfect document into ALL-IN-1" by SAC::EDMUNDS (It's only life after all) Wed May 20 1992 21:50

    I have a customer query regarding Wordperfect and ALL-IN-1: I have
    little knowledge of either product, so please excuse my ignorance
    here: I'm grateful for any help/guidance/pointers.
    
    They have users with PCs that are running Pathworks to a VAX.
    Wordperfect is served from the VAX, and the Wordperfect documents are
    also stored on the VAX. What they want to be able to do is sethost to
    the VAX and then DT the Wordperfect document from the VAX into ALL-IN-1
    and retain attributes such as underlining and bolding. They do not want
    to integrate Wordperfect into ALL-IN-1; rather they want to convert the
    document.
    
    Questions: is this possible? Do the new CDA convertors due this summer
    help at all?
    
    Thanks for any help on this.
    
    Keith Edmunds
    Unilever Corporate Account Consultant,
    Basingstoke, England. DTN 781 1225.
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731.1Try RVC and SVC optionsNEMAIL::BYRNEThe Red MenaceWed May 20 1992 22:3018
    Try going to the Document Transfer Menu and doing an RVC (Receive
    Without Conversion) on the Wordperfect document file. (You will
    have to know the VMS name and location of the Wordperfect file).
    The file will be pulled into the ALL-IN-1 file cabinet and treated
    as foreign-formatted. (Note the .FGN extension on the file after it
    is pulled in.)  After that, you can attach it to a mail message and
    mail it to other users, who can in turn file the attachment in their
    file cabinets and do SVC (Send without conversion) to their own VMS
    areas.  They should take care to give an VMS file name and extension 
    appropriate for Wordperfect to the file they are exporting.  Just
    make sure that the document is always an ATTACHMENT if your users
    want to mail it.
    
    You could automate this process if you wanted to to a little ALL-IN-1
    programming.  It would take a little work, but the customer would love
    it.
    
    Eileen
731.2SAC::EDMUNDSIt's only life after allThu May 21 1992 11:304
    Thanks for the info. However, they want to convert the document to WPS
    - can that be done with the CDA convertors?
    
    Keith
731.3CDA: No, KEYPAK: Yes!EEMELI::SALMINENHannu Salminen, PTG -FinlandFri May 22 1992 09:4210
	As far as I know recent situation CDA has not a converter for
	WP <-> WPS-PLUS conversions, CDA Converters are more for
	converting between graphical formats. (Correct me if the situation
	is changed)

	Direct translation between WPS-PLUS and WP format is possible
	with KEYPAK converter (a third-party sw). 

				Regards,	Hannu Salminen
731.4CDA is not that badUTRTSC::SCHOLLAERTSweden, here we comeTue May 26 1992 09:1327
    re.-1

>	As far as I know recent situation CDA has not a converter for
>	WP <-> WPS-PLUS conversions, CDA Converters are more for
>	converting between graphical formats. (Correct me if the situation
>	is changed)

    CDA also converts documents and tables (spreadsheets). DECwrite
    V2 ships with a WPL front and backend. Third parties are working lots
    of formats.
    
    Have a look at Note 1272.7 in the CDA conference for:
    
                  "All the CDA Converters in the world"
    
>	Direct translation between WPS-PLUS and WP format is possible
>	with KEYPAK converter (a third-party sw). 

    It does ? What version ? I thought you always had to go through
    DX format.
    
    Regards,
    
    Jan
731.5FYIIOSG::MARCHANTOnly parrots succeedTue May 26 1992 22:517
    The DDIF<==>WPS-PLUS converter also ships with ALL-IN-1 V3.0

    However without a corresponding wordperfect converter, it doesn't help
    (in this case) very much...

    Cheers,
        Paul.