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- README FILE FOR OPENDOC
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- This package contains a pre-release version of the header files
- and programming documentation for the OpenDoc** product. These files
- will help you understand OpenDoc and what it can do for you.
-
- NOTE: This package contains alpha-level material. It is provided
- on an as-is basis for evaluation and demonstration.
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- WHAT IS OPENDOC
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- OpenDoc is an architecture that provides a means for applications to
- support compound documents. Compound documents are documents that are
- created and edited by several cooperating applications working within
- the context of a single document. OpenDoc enables users to integrate
- and edit any kind of content, in place, in any kind of document. An
- example of this integration would be a chart from a graphics
- application being imbedded into a word processing document while still
- being editable, within the word processing document, by the graphics
- application.
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- For a more complete description of OpenDoc, see the documentation
- files in the DOCS subdirectory.
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- THE DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
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- The OpenDoc package consists of the following subdirectories:
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- ...\OPENDOC
- ├──DOCS
- └──HEADERS
-
- ...\OPENDOC
- This is the "root" directory of the OpenDoc package and contains this
- README file.
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- OPENDOC\DOCS
- This subdirectory contains three PostScript** files:
- - A Class Reference which describes OpenDoc's classes and the
- methods they contain
- - A Technical Summary which contains an overview of OpenDoc
- - A White Paper written on OpenDoc, which provides a high-level
- introduction to OpenDoc
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- OPENDOC\HEADERS
- This subdirectory contains C++** header files for the OpenDoc programming
- interface.
-
-
- Note:
- The documentation in the DOCS subdirectory and the header files in the
- HEADERS subdirectory were written using C++ as the programming language.
- The final version of OpenDoc will use the System Object Model (SOM)
- programming model. The headers will be replaced by CORBA**-compliant
- Interface Definition Language (IDL) files.
-
- Because much of this material is a work-in-progress, notes on
- revisions and planned changes can be found in this material. In
- addition, much of the material in this package was produced at Apple
- Computer, Inc. and, for this reason, contains references to Apple**
- and the Macintosh** computer.
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- NOTICES
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- References in this publication to IBM products, programs, or services
- do not imply that IBM intends to make these available in all countries
- in which IBM operates. Any reference to an IBM product, program or
- service is not intended to state or imply that only IBM's product,
- program, or service may be used. Any functionally equivalent product,
- program, or service that does not infringe any of IBM's intellectual
- property rights or other legally protectable rights may be used instead
- of the IBM product, program, or service. Evaluation and verification of
- operation in conjunction with other products, programs, or services,
- except those expressly designated by IBM, are the user's responsibility.
-
- IBM may have patents or pending patent applications covering subject
- matter in this document. The furnishing of this document does not
- give you any license to these patents. You can send license inquiries,
- in writing, to the IBM Director of Licensing, IBM Corporation,
- 208 Harbor Drive, Stamford, Connecticut 06904-2501, USA.
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- TRADEMARKS
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- The following terms, denoted by a double asterisk (**) in this
- publication, are trademarks of other companies as follows:
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- Apple Apple Computer, Inc.
- C++ AT&T, Inc.
- CORBA Object Management Group, Inc.
- OpenDoc Apple Computer, Inc.
- Macintosh Apple Computer, Inc.
- PostScript Adobe Systems Incorporated
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- IBM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING
- WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF FITNESS AND MERCHANTABILITY WITH
- RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT. BY FURNISHING THIS
- DOCUMENT, IBM GRANTS NO LICENSES TO ANY RELATED PATENTS OR COPYRIGHTS.
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- Copyright International Business Machines Corporation, 1994.
- All Rights Reserved.
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