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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

4049.0. "DT SV - GOLD P vs GOLD N" by OASS::BURNAMAN_B (And now, live, from Atlanta . . . ) Tue Apr 05 1994 22:31

    Greetings,
    
    If a user does a DT SV to send a document to VMS and if the document
    contains a soft page break (GOLD P in WPS-PLUS), the VMS file that is
    created contains a <FF><NUL> character.  If the file contains a hard
    page break (GOLD N), just a <FF> appears in the output file.
    
    Customer wants to know if there is a way to have the soft page break
    do just a <FF> instead of a <FF><NUL>.  (Hopefully something customer
    modifyable.)
    
    Customer is actually sending documents containing soft page breaks to
    a remote system (OA$MTI_TRNS = 1), and the <NUL> character is causing
    problems on the receiving end.
    
    Thanks, in advance, for your speedy reply.
    
    Bruce Burnaman
    CSC/Atlanta
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4049.1ASCII text datasetIOSG::NEWLANDRichard Newland, IOSG, REO2-G/L2Wed Apr 06 1994 13:0112
You did not say what type of VMS file you created so I am assuming that it 
was an ASCII text file.

The ASCII text dataset output action routine is coded to convert a
Soft-Page marker to <FF><NUL>.  The input action is coded to convert 
<FF><NUL> to a Soft-Page marker.  This allows an ALL-IN-1 ASCII file to 
distinguish between Hard-Page and Soft-Page markers.  This behavior cannot
be modified by the customer. 


Richard
4049.2I think its a WordPerfect problemOASS::BURNAMAN_BAnd now, live, from Atlanta . . . Tue Apr 19 1994 22:5621
    Hi Richard,
    
    Thanks - this is the answer I expected.  I had pretty much already set
    the customers expectation.
    
    Customer is using WordPerfect as the editor and that software helps the
    user out by automatically inserting a soft page break at or about line
    54.  When these files are sent from ALL-IN-1, they are converted to
    ASCII because the "OA$MTI_TRNS" logical is set to 1.  They go to an-
    other system that does bizarre things if a <FF><NUL> character is en-
    countered.
    
    Naturally, this is an ALL-IN-1 problem (as far as the customer is
    concerned) because WPS-PLUS documents containing a soft page break will
    also be converted to <FF><NUL>.
    
    I will relay this info to the customer.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Bruce in Atlanta