Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <1iv3fvINNeui@male.EBay.Sun.COM>
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:58:06 GMT
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In article <1iv3fvINNeui@male.EBay.Sun.COM> robert1@sabu.EBay.Sun.COM (Bob S.- Contractor) writes:
>I want to take my Frame files from Sun at work and work on them at home on Windows and then take them back to the Sun platform. Frame says I have to buy a $300 program called Common-Link to convert the disks to the other format. I had always believed that this could be done within Frame. The manual is no help. If anyone out there is working from UNIX to Windows and back, please let me know how you do it. Thanks
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>Bob in San Jose
>.
It sounds like you and Frame are talking apples and oranges. FrameMaker files
can be opened on any platform. Files created on Suns can be opened on PCs,
Macs, or whatever, transparently (although the software will bitch if the
fonts are not what it expects). So, no problem.
However, you still have to get the files from one machine to the other.
It sounds as if you're trying to use floppies; The UNIX floppy format is
not compatible with DOS floppy format. If you're trying to write a DOS
floppy on a Sun, you will need some sort of utility program to do it ..
. on my company's IBM AIX workstations, it's DOSWRITE. I don't know what
it would be on a Sun, but tech support seems to be feeding you some
information. I'd check with your systems wrangler to see if you've already
got somehing that will work.
Another option would be a modem dial up link and kermit or xmodem, or
whatever file transfer protocol you like best....
Art
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