teexand@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Andrew Dawson) (05/08/91)
[Apologies if this has been asked before] Does anyone out there have any details on DCA file format. This seems to be commonly used as an export/import format by many PC applications, but I have yet to find a source of the specification. Looking at files generated, they appear to be in EBCDIC, but the format is far from obvious. Any pointers to online files, books, source code, etc would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Andrew. -- #include <std_disclaimer.h> /* My brain was swiss-cheesed when I wrote this */ JANET: andrew@uk.ac.ucl.sm.uxm UUCP/EARN/BITNET: andrew@uxm.sm.ucl.ac.uk INTERNET: andrew%uxm.sm.ucl.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk "Leapers do it with assistance from neurological holograms"
teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK) (05/09/91)
In article <1991May8.100805.21416@ioe.lon.ac.uk> andrew@uxm.sm.ucl.ac.uk writes: >[Apologies if this has been asked before] > >Does anyone out there have any details on DCA file format. This seems to >be commonly used as an export/import format by many PC applications, but I have >yet to find a source of the specification. Last time I was interested, there was no easily available published description of the DCA format. If you *have* to work with it, then you have to. But if you *can* aviod doing so, DO. For a while, DCA was the closest to a standard interchange format that was generally available in the world of commercial text processors, but that throne has now gone to Microsoft's RTF. Also, NB that XyQuest has now done a deal with IBM so that IBM has full rights to the next version of XyWrite (version IV). This is to become IBM's flagship word processing program, I gather, and will have built-in facilities to help DisplayWrite users to convert. DisplayWrite (can) use DCA (aka RFT, no relation of RTF), and XyWrite's file format is a sheer joy, and dead easy to work with (it's mostly plain ASCII). So if you are looking at a big DCA - to - XX translation job, you might want to wait a few months and look at what comes with XyWrite IV. Dominik
phn@dde.dk (Per H. Nielsen) (05/14/91)
teexand@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Andrew Dawson) writes: >Does anyone out there have any details on DCA file format. This seems to >be commonly used as an export/import format by many PC applications, but I have >yet to find a source of the specification. The complete specification for DCA RFT can be found in the IBM publication: Document Content Architecure: Revisable-Form-Text Reference Order No. SC23-0758-1 -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ! Per H. Nielsen @ Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, ! ! E-mail: phn@dde.dk ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=