Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

1051.0. "CDA v2.1, ALL-IN-1 v3.0 and WordPerfect" by GIDDAY::SETHI (Man from Downunder) Wed Jul 15 1992 08:46

    G'day All,
    
    I have opened this topic to keep you all abreast of ALL-IN-1 Version
    3.0 and WordPerefect integration kit.  The Beta test version is being
    currently tested in Australia currently.  The customer has VMS Version
    5.5-1 installed.                                                       
    ^^^^^
    
    A similar error to the one in note 689 has been reported
    "OA$FORMATTER_START SEND_JBC OPERATION ERROR".  In addition to this
    when you run the oa$formatter.exe interactively you get the following
    error
    
    $ MC OA$FORMATTER
    %DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image DECW$DXMLIBSHR
    -CLI-E-IMAGEFNF, image file not found
    $1$DUA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSLIB]DECW$DXMLIBSHR.EXE;
    
    To check if the oa$formatter.exe is the version provided by Digital I
    did the following $CHECK/IMAGE SYS$SYSTEM:OA$FORMATER.EXE, the line you
    are interested in is the last line here is a sample
    
    $ CHECK/IMAGE SYS$SYSTOA$FORMATTER.EXE
    EM:OA$FORMATTER.EXE
    
    file SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]OA$FORMATTER.EXE;2
    image section %D'1' checksum is %X'000ACEF2'
    image section %D'3' checksum is %X'E5A5FAE1'
    image section %D'4' checksum is %X'AEF273C2'
    image section %D'5' checksum is %X'43378A97'
    image section %D'6' checksum is %X'57D5CF83'
    image section %D'7' checksum is %X'7DD90D00'
    image section %D'8' checksum is %X'0A1BACAB'
    image header checksum is %X'2549E984'
    checksum of all image sections is %X'7382234A'   <--- WordPerfect Image
    
    Note the check sum for our image is %X'77CB5636'. I have been told by
    the VMS group that the checksum does not change even if VMS Versions do
    not match.  I looked at the OA$BUILD:OAFORMATTER.OBJ it contained version 
    2 and was created 29-APR-1992 where as ours is dated the 12-MAR-1992.
    
    It also the logical SMBSRVSHR is no longer used and has been replaced by 
    
    (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE) "SMBSRVSHR_WPCORP_PTR51" = "SYS$SHARE:SMBSRVSHR"
    
    I cannot say for sure if SYS$SHARE:SMBSRVSHR.EXE has been replaced
    because I do not have a copy of the image version "X-1" only the
    Pathworks image.  If one of you could check by doing the following :-)
    
    ANALYZE/IMAGE/INTERACTIVE SYS$SHARE:SMBSRVSHR.EXE
    
    Providing it comes up with the module version: "X-1", then do a
    CHECK/IMAGE the check sum I have from the customers site is
    %X'7382234A'.  If they are different than it's been updated.
    
    It would be good if any news could be posted here regarding any updates
    on WordPerfect and ALL-IN-1 Version 3 integration.  I have told the
    customer they need to talk to WordPerfect, as soon as I have some
    more news I will post it here.  Hopefully we will keep one step ahead of 
    our customers.
    
    Sunil

    Sunil,
    
    here in the U.S WordPerfect issued their final field-test kit yesterday
    (I think I get confused with dates here as the U.S does them backwards
    i.e 7/8 is really 8/7) with the intention of shipping in a few weeks ahead
    of the Labour day holiday. We have an earlier version installed somewhere 
    here and i'll try and check your problem their but i'm pretty sure that 
    machine doesn't have 5.5-1 on it.
    
    Regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks
            

    Sunil,
    
    As I suspected our system is running VMS v5.4-2 and our module version
    isn't X-1 it's X-4! the checksum is %X'7382234A'
    
    oh well
    
    regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks

    Hi,
    
    The error message in .0
    
    >$ MC OA$FORMATTER
    >%DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image DECW$DXMLIBSHR
    >-CLI-E-IMAGEFNF, image file not found
    >$1$DUA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSLIB]DECW$DXMLIBSHR.EXE;
    
    Well I discussed this matter with our man in the field.  He has
    informed me that the customer is testing the field test version of CDA
    2.1.  It looks like CDA requires Motif to be installed even if you have
    VT terminals.
    
    The question is can someone tell me what is the connection between
    OA$FORMATTER and Motif ?  I am a bit stumped for an explaination.  As
    soon as our man in the field has installed and fully tested ALL-IN-1,
    CDA, WordPerfect and Motif I will enter more details in here.
    
    Looks like this site loves being a beta test site for anything and
    everything.  
    
    Sunil

The ALL-IN-1 V3.0 background formatter supports CDA formatting in addition
to the ASCII and WPS-PLUS formatting supported in previous versions.  The
CDA converter routines we have to call to provide CDA formatting have
dependencies on Motif. 

For an answer to the question:

    Why do CDA routines (for a Compound Document Architecture) have a
    dependency on the routines for Motif, a Graphical User Interface?

you should ask the CDA group.  I have never been able to think of a good
reason.  It may be because the CDA group didn't think that CDA would be
used in environment that didn't have DECwindows and/or DECwrite.  I 
understand that CDA is being repackaged to remove this dependency.


Richard