| 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 | 
    Hello,
    
    	 I have an ALL-IN-1 V3.0 customer who has a question about: 
        13.9 Specifying Document Conversion Types
         (ALL-IN-1 Management V3.0)
    
    	 The last step is to provide a convert function that is to be used
    	to perform the conversion. 
    
    	 What is the convert function ? A .SCP,.COM,.EXE?? or something
    	else? Also once defined, where will ALL-IN-1 go looking for it?
    
    	 Any information that will help clairfy the situation (for me and
    	the client) would be great.
    
    
    						Derek Street
    	
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines | 
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| 785.1 | a little more information required | KAOFS::D_STREET | Tue Jun 02 1992 18:14 | 9 | |
|      hello again,
    	 In addition the client would like to know the rules for passing
    	parameters (like what to convert and where to put it). In fact, 
    	a general overview would be helpful since the manual leave alot
    	of the details un-answered.
    
    						Thanks...
    
    							Derek.
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| 785.2 | See Application Programming Guide also | IOSG::NEWLAND | Richard Newland, IOSG, REO1-D/4A | Tue Jun 02 1992 19:10 | 19 | 
| There is more about Document Conversions in section 21.3.4 of the V3.0
Application Programming Guide.
The contents of the 'Convert function' field are executed as an ALL-IN-1
function.  This can be a single ALL-IN-1 function or more commonly a 'DO
script' to execute an ALL-IN-1 script, or a 'COMMAND file' to execute a DCL
command procedure.  ALL-IN-1 will look for Scripts or Command procedures in
the normal directories - see descriptions of 'DO' and 'COMMAND' functions
for details. 
The parameters for a Convert function are listed in Table 21-8 of the 
Application Programming Guide.  
There are two scripts, OA$DO:CHECK_CONVERT.SCP and OA$DO:FILECONVERT.SCP,
which are used by ALL-IN-1 to determine when a convert function is used
and to invoke the convert function.
    
    
Richard
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