Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

330.0. "Bookreader hanging with LMF tags..." by CURRNT::ALFORD (Ice a speciality) Thu May 03 1990 15:57

    
    Having at last managed to install V1.2B (on a LAVc)....
    
    I am having problems with LMF !
    
    I am using a seperate symbols file for the <LMF> tags with /SYMBOLS=
    etc...
    
    The BOOKBROWSER license is installed.
    
    My LMF tags are like this :-
    
    <define_book_name>(s_apsec\Application Security Standard)
    
    <LMF>(S_APSEC)
    <LMF_PRODUCER>(DEC)
    <LMF_PRODUCT>(ADG-STANDARDS)
    <LMF_RELEASE_DATE>(0)
    <LMF_VERSION_NUMBER>(0)
    <LMF_ALTNAME>(BOOKBROWSER)
    <ENDLMF>
    
    When I try to read the resulting .DECW$BOOK in Bookreader, the process
    hangs and does very little apart from using massive amounts of CPU
    time !
    
   The BOOKINFO gives :-
         
    $ bookinfo sys$common:[decw$book]s_apsec.decw$book
    
     Title:           "Application Security Standard"
     Symbolic Name:   "S_APSEC"
     Build Date:       3-MAY-1990 19:33:56.47
     Structure Level: 2.0
    
     LMF Information
       Product Name:  "ADG-STANDARDS"
       Producer:      "DEC"
       Date:          none
       Version:       0
     LMF Alternate Product Names:
       BOOKBROWSER
    
     Book contains the following directories:
       Contents
       Tables
    
    
    I tried using the following variants :-
    
1)  <LMF>(S_APSEC)
    <LMF_PRODUCER>(DEC)
    <LMF_PRODUCT>(BOOKBROWSER)
    <LMF_RELEASE_DATE>(0)
    <LMF_VERSION_NUMBER>(0)
    <ENDLMF>
    
2)  <LMF>(S_APSEC)
    <LMF_PRODUCER>(DEC)
    <LMF_PRODUCT>(BOOKBROWSER)
    <LMF_RELEASE_DATE>(0)
    <LMF_VERSION_NUMBER>(0)
    <LMF_ALTNAME>(BOOKBROWSER)
    <ENDLMF>
    
3)  <LMF>(S_APSEC)
    <LMF_PRODUCER>(DEC)
    <LMF_PRODUCT>(BOOKBROWSER)
    <LMF_RELEASE_DATE>(0)
    <LMF_VERSION_NUMBER>(0)
    <LMF_ALTNAME>(ADG-STANDARDS)
    <ENDLMF>
    
    
    With (1) I got errors in the compile, and with (2) and (3) I got
    the same results as with the original format...
    
    What am I missing ????????????

    
    The command line was :-
    
$document/cont/cond=book/list/keep/symbols=standards.sdml -
_$ s_apsec online.reference bookreader
    
    The list file doesn't show anything abnormal, apart from getting
    the puzzling warnings :-
    
%TAG-W-LCL_MSG26, tag <TITLE>, line 37, file
   DISK:[ALFORD.MSTH]S_APSEC.SDML;
   LMF tags are missing.
%TAG-W-LCL_MSG26, tag <TITLE>, line 37, file
   DISK:[ALFORD.MSTH]S_APSEC.SDML;
   LMF tags are missing.

>>    The BOOKBROWSER license is installed.
    
Double check this and/or if the ADG-STANDARDS PAK is installed.  What you are
seeing is symptomatic of a bug in VMS V5.3 where the Bookreader would go 
compute-bound if no license matched.  The bookinof shows that the license
info is being put in the books.  NOTE that the BOOKBROWSER or ADG-STANDARDS
PAK must be installed on the node that's opening the bookfile, not on the
workstation displaying the book (unless, of course it's the same node).
I'm also assuming you can read the book okay if you omit the LMF info in
the build.

The bug is fixed in 5.4, so if you have access to a 5.4 system, you could
try reading the book there.

If none of this helps, send me a pointer to the book file and I'll look at it.

joe

    
    your suspicions were right...
    
    BOOKBROWSER had been registered but not Loaded on that node.
    
    There is no such PAK as ADG-STANDARDS as yet, I had hoped that
    BOOKBROWSER would override it....as it did, eventually :-)

    
    	Hello!
    
    	From where can I get the hack (?) BOOKINFO or is it part of
    	Bookreader somehow?
    
    	Thanks
    	Marie

    Hi,
    	BOOKINFO was included in the VAX DOCUMENT V1.2-B kit.  You can find
    the announcement and some information in note 64.10.
    
    Wayne

    
    	Thanks Wayne!
    
    	/Marie