univac@pirates.pirates.uucp (Chuck Brown) (08/11/90)
We have several questions relating to Word Perfect under the SCO platforms.
We've worked with 4.2 and now 5.0 for a couple of customers, but can't seem
to get straight answers from either SCO or WP.
1) Has anyone gotten WP to work correctly under Xenix 2.3.2 and the multiview
product? We just get the message "Application has output control sequences
unknown to Multiview"
2) Will WP 5.0 for Xenix run correctly under SCO UNIX? WP says no, we've heard
reports that it works fine.
3) Is it true that WP 5.0 damagelarge documents under the Xenix release?
If so, does anyone have an idea what the "key" size of a document must
be before it is a candidate for destruction?
Thanks in advance!
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Chuck Brown, President Infinity Consulting
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or Savannah, GA 31402
4gen!Infinit!chuck Voice: (912) 235-2677scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) (08/13/90)
In article <380@pirates.UUCP> univac@pirates.pirates.uucp (Chuck Brown) writes: >1) Has anyone gotten WP to work correctly under Xenix 2.3.2 and the multiview > product? We just get the message "Application has output control sequences > unknown to Multiview" We use WP 4.2 under Xenix 2.3.2 and are quite happy with it. We had to give up on Multiview a while back since WP (and many other applications) did not work because of Multiview's narrow understanding of control sequences. The error message you report sounds about right. (disclaimer: my knowledge of Multiview is over a year out-of-date. They were aware of the problems and may have improved things by now.) -- Scott Amspoker Basis International, Albuquerque, NM (505) 345-5232 unmvax.cs.unm.edu!bbx!bbxsda!scott
benah@adspp.uucp (Ben A. Hunsberger) (08/14/90)
In article <959@bbxsda.UUCP> scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes: >In article <380@pirates.UUCP> univac@pirates.pirates.uucp (Chuck Brown) writes: >>1) Has anyone gotten WP to work correctly under Xenix 2.3.2 and the multiview >> product? We just get the message "Application has output control sequences >> unknown to Multiview" > >We use WP 4.2 under Xenix 2.3.2 and are quite happy with it. We had to give >up on Multiview a while back since WP (and many other applications) did >not work because of Multiview's narrow understanding of control sequences. MultiView operates by looking at the control sequences sent to your terminal, it then matches that to a MAP, IGN, or ALL file. The Map file is used to reinterparate what is sent to something MulitView understands. These are all documented in your MultiView manual. To "debug" the application in question execute MultiView as follows mview -d This will tell you all the sequences you need to give Multiview a definition of. You will probably need to both provide more definiton to MultiView's MAP files and also modify the control sequences sent by WP using WP's term program. We currently have 4.2 WP working under Multiview for wyse 60 epc style terminals. It took a bit to do and we had to strip WP of its character downloading. But, it works great. WP 5.0 is a different animal because of its graphical use of the terminals and we have not yet tackled this project. Has anyone else? -- Benjamin A. Hunsberger | uunet!rutgers!iuvax!ndmath!nstar!adspp!benah MicroAge/Abacus | benah@adspp.UUCP 2707 Middlebury St. | 219-295-4290 (voice) Elkhart, IN 46516 | 219-522-2964 (fax)