tfabian@falcon.lerc.nasa.gov (Teddy Fabian) (07/17/90)
In article writes: >atd.com!trantor!chuck >Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop,mail.framers >Subject: Re: Any good WYSIWIG desktop publishing software on UNIX Workstations? >Message-ID: <1990Jul11.001331.2820@Matrix.COM> >Date: 10 Jul 90 12:57:02 GMT >References: <1924@runxtsa.runx.oz.au> <12980001@hpspdra.HP.COM> <1990Jul9.032311.6040@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> >Sender: mcnc!tusun2.mcs.utulsa.edu!framers-request >Reply-To: mcnc!drd!trantor.harris-atd.com!chuck (Chuck Musciano) >Organization: Advanced Technology Dept, Harris Corp, Melbourne, FL >Lines: 60 >Approved: Mail_Input@Matrix.COM >Return-Path: <mcnc!mcnc!tusun2.mcs.utulsa.edu!framers-request> >X-Local-Date: 10 Jul 90 05:57:02 PDT >X-Received: by DRD.Com (4.0/DRD-4.1) >Precedence: bulk > in a prior article, I wrote (using my other account): > >In article <1990Jul9.032311.6040@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>, tpf4434@DOMAIN_2.lerc.nasa.gov (Teddy Fabian) writes: >> [InterLeaf] files are portable between platforms with some conditions.. >> (ie. how it was stored.. and what software you're using..) and then Chuck Musciano wrote: > > That doesn't sound too portable to me... > so, I'd like to take the opportunity to provide some of the technical insights into my comment... we've use Interleaf extensively on Apollo, SUN, and IBM 386 platform and have exchanged files between them.. but under the following conditions.. 1) the exchanges between Apollo and Sun platforms was done using IDU.. IDU is the Interleaf Desktop Utility.. it allows the concatenation of all Interleaf document (book, cabinet, etc.) files into one large file for transfer, then requires expansion on the other platform.. simple enough.. but with some problems... eg. file naming constraints on the different platforms can cause problems.. the Sun cannot handle special characters such as the _ or the / in file names.. since the Apollo can, transferring a document with such a character in it's name using IDU results in failure... to cure problem, rename the file... 2) files save as Interleaf Ascii are directly portable between platforms.. files saved as Interleaf Fast (binary) are only usable on the platform on which they are saved.. problem with this is it's not easy to move a BOOK with 500 documents in it one file at a time... (since each document is represented by four files, that wouuld be 2000 files to move...) I suppose you could FTP them.. but the version of FTP we've got doesn't maintain directory structures... thus the need for IDU.. or some tape utility that can write on one system and read on the other... and still maintain tree structure (TAR maybe??) 3) 386 Interleaf to/from Apollo Interleaf.. this one is tricky... since we're running 4.0 TPS Interleaf on Apollo and SUN, and 3.5 Interleaf publisher on 386s, we don't have a really good way of getting files and documents back and forth.. at least not until we found Filtrix from Blueberry Software... Filtrix converts Interleaf formats from one version format to another.. we've done some tests, and have found a few bugs, but for the most part it works well... (I can elaborate on the tests if there is interest...) however, the caveats are that Filtrix only runs at this time on either the 386 or the SUN... file from Apollo need to be moved to one or the otehr... our tests took the files to the 386.. we moved the files to the DOS world through the Apollo DPCC DOS co-processor network option.. that involved configuring a "network offer" for the Apollo side of the machine to the DOS side.. given this tool for moving files, we were constrained to use only DOS acceptable file names.. anything else did not copy.. next, we ran Filtrix on the files and then had to move the resulting files to the 386... simple if you've got a network.. compllex if not... also, for Filtrix to work, the source files need to be saved as Interleaf Ascii.. the Interleaf Fast (binary) saved files bomb... and again, here each file needs to be converted separately... so it can get quite long for a big book... I hope that clarifies my remarks... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Thanks, * * Ted Fabian NASA Lewis Research Center * * Cleveland, Ohio * * * * phone: 216-433-6307 FTS 297-6307 | disclaimer: * * email: tpfabian@nasamail.nasa.gov | my opinions * * tfabian@earth.lerc.nasa.gov | are my own * - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - tfabian@falcon.lerc.nasa.gov -- ---------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Ted Fabian NASA Lewis Research Center tpfabian@nasamail.nasa.gov *my opinions tfabian@mars.lerc.nasa.gov *are my own..