| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name
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| 1083.1 |  | BUSY::SLAB | Audiophiles do it 'til it hertz! | Tue May 27 1997 20:44 | 3 | 
|  |     
    	Yes, a mere five days ago, note 1075 was posted.
    
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| 1083.2 | you can buy a conversion package | PARZVL::ogodhcp-124-40-168.ogo.dec.com::kennedy | nuncam non paratus | Tue May 27 1997 22:53 | 9 | 
|  | this is a bit different than 1075 - which wanted to read
the WPS-PLUS attachments in Exchange.
What Innosoft (the PMDF vendor) recommends for converting
WPS-PLUS is to buy and integrate a document conversion 
package.  They mention KEYpak ( http://www.KEYpak.com )
I don't know what others there are (perhaps the Messaging
practice may).  More detail can be found by following the
Support link at Innosoft's page ( http://www.innosoft.com ).
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| 1083.3 | what's everyone else doing? | ODIXIE::SIMPSONT | PC = world's biggest con job! | Wed May 28 1997 16:39 | 8 | 
|  |     I'm really amazed that this has not come before...  I really thought
    that this would be a HOT topic and that the people that "planned" the
    migration to Exchange would have a plan to address these issues?!
    
    Have I missed something obvious?  Wouldn't A LOT of people be
    struggling with this issue?
    
    -Tom
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| 1083.4 | internal/customer reqs may differ | PARZVL::ogodhcp-124-40-168.ogo.dec.com::kennedy | nuncam non paratus | Wed May 28 1997 17:49 | 17 | 
|  | >    I'm really amazed that this has not come before...  I really thought
>    that this would be a HOT topic and that the people that "planned" the
>    migration to Exchange would have a plan to address these issues?!
 Yes, for the Digital Exchange migration there are tools (Exchangelink 
 & Direct-to-1) which will do WPS-PLUS translation. I see from your 
 entry in 1075 that you have not found this to be true.  Did you report
 it to the Helpdesk - they can escalate to the vendor if necessary, but
 may already have a solution.  
>    Have I missed something obvious?  Wouldn't A LOT of people be
>    struggling with this issue?
 The person asking this question is doing so for a customer migration
 project (not internal Digital).  We in Digital decided to use the 
 translation from WPS-PLUS to plain text which is built into PMDF, rather
 than by a converter package (which could have gotten quite expensive,
 since we're up to about a dozen PMDF gateways by now). PMDF does 
 convert all attachments, btw.
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| 1083.5 | more homework required | ODIXIE::SIMPSONT | PC = world's biggest con job! | Fri May 30 1997 13:44 | 10 | 
|  |     Thanks for the response.  I have to do a little more research on the
    circumstances surrounding the cases where there is a translation
    problem.  It seems to work in some cases and fails in others.  The
    original migration was done for a co-worker via Direct-To-1.  I have
    not seen the same problem with the files that I migrated from my own
    account.  But then, I have not attempted to open each and every
    attachment yet, either...
    
    Regards,
    Tom
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| 1083.6 | Mailbus 400 | BIGUN::dhcp205.cao.dec.com::eine::bruce |  | Mon Jun 02 1997 02:57 | 6 | 
|  | The other way to do this is to use Mailbus 400 rather than PMDF.  Mailbus 
400 comes with Mastersoft converters that do a good job of converting from 
WPSPLUS to Word.  I have successfully done this at a customer site.
Malcolm
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