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- Subject: RE: WordPerfect Office 3.1
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- From: Ned Freed <ned@sigurd.innosoft.com>
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 12:52:41 -0700 (PDT)
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- > We've been looking into purchasing WP Office 3.1 and one of our questions
- > is how/if this will interface with PMDF (4.1-7). Whilst I wade through
- > the WP Office manuals I thought I'd see if anyone has any input on the
- > viability of this idea.
-
- If you're referring to the VMS implementation, there is a foreign protocol
- interface to VMS MAIL that PMDF can talk to. This interface does work, but
- a fair amount of richness is lost (attachments, formatting, etc.).
- Unfortunately, there is no API we can use to build our own interface on
- VMS.
-
- WP Office on PCs doesn't have either the VMS MAIL interface or an API, but
- there is hope since the next release of the product is supposed to have an API.
- We are already involved in building a gateway using this interface.
- I don't know if this API will be available on VMS; I doubt it. There may
- eventually be some other API on VMS; we'll just have to wait for WPCorp to
- figure out what they are doing in this area before we'll be able to do
- anything.
-
- Ned
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