| 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 |
(I cross posted this in the WordPerfect conference)
Has anyone done any customizations so that the ALL-IN-1 DT SD option
will send a document down to a PC user? The customer's users
apparently think that WordPerfect is better than WPS-PLUS, except for
the ways that it is worse ;-).
The users have tried going in through WPS-PLUS for DOS, and using the
option to transfer the document to a DOS file. It seems to work, but
WordPerfect cannot use the file. What I thought of doing was
customizing the menu to have an option for WordPerfect which would
invoke Kermit. I think there is little likelihood that WP Corp will
decide to incorporate EasyComm into their DOS product since there is
such a small percentage that use VMS, compared to the vast numbers that
use the DOS product.
Ben
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1106.1 | Using Kermit seems is a good idea | GIDDAY::SETHI | Man from Downunder | Fri Jul 24 1992 01:28 | 37 |
G'day Ben,
I wrote a procedure that made use of Kermit to transfer files between
VMS and DOS, this worked very well and I had no problems.
The outline of how it worked is as follows for DOS to VMS transfer
1. Transfer the document to VMS it had a standard name
2. ALL-IN-1 created an entery in the file cabinet
3. Got the name of the RMS file name created by the cabinet function
4. Used VMS rename command to copy in the file to the appropriate
ALL-IN-1 RMS file name.
The outline of VMS to DOS transfer
1. Get the name of the RMS file for the ALL-IN-1 file
2. Use VMS copy command to copy it to a standard name
3. Invoked Kermit to send the document down to the PC
Points to take note of
The rate of transfer (speed) can cause problems.
If the PC and VMS have different Versions of WordPerfect it can cause
minor problems. Attributes will be lost.
There was a problem when transfering documents in that the user was
asked to enter their VMS password. The customer got around this
problem.
Unfortunately I do not have the code it's at the customer site, the
kermit script was written by the customer. Kermit does provide a good
method of transfer.
I hope that I have been of some help, you are on the right track.
Sunil
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