[comp.os.vms] ALLIN1 DSABS, have you written one lately?

unknown@cunyvm.UUCP (10/25/87)

I have a WordProcessor which needs to become the default editor for ALLIN1.

DEC says that this is impossible, but it is actually carefully provided
for by the designers of ALLIN1.

I have accomplished the following:

Created a new text type for the documents produced for the editor.
Caused the editor to be called from a shareable RTL by AllIN1 whenever editing
is called for (by a user who has specified the alternate editing style in
his user profile).  I also know how to make the editor save to or retrieve
from foreign (WPSPLUS,EDT,WPS,etc.) document formats and do an automatic
conversion of the various word processing attributes from the ALLIN1
intermediate format to and from the editor's format.  I need one final link:

There is a slot in OAET.MAR for a conversion routine to convert to/from
this editor's format into the intermediate ALLIN1 format to provide the
intermediate format to other applications or conversion facilities when they
encounter a document produced by this editor.  I know that I can eventually
reverse-hack out the protocol required by this routine, and the information
block passed to it, but if anyone has written such routines before or seen
documentation on the call to the convert routine listed in OAET,MAR which
they could provide me with, or tell me how to get, it would be greatly
appreciated.  I do not have regular access to this account, but if someone
could publicly post the information, I'm sure it would be appreciated by
others as well.  Or publish a name or phone number and I will contact you.

Thanks.