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- From: harcoh@ZEUS.CS.KUN.NL (Harco de Hilster)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Support for non-unix ATK clients?
- Message-ID: <IeWbrQS3fW4141ippJ@zeus.cs.kun.nl>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 15:21:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
- Lines: 36
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- Hi,
-
- I would like to know what the plans are for better support for non-unix
- clients in ATK.
-
- I posted a similar question some time ago, and got real nice help from
- Karam Farshchi from special-projects, but it didn't solve my problems.
-
- The PC and Mac version of VUI use a different snap protocol and
- guardian, and the servers still have AFS dependencies in their code (we
- use NFS). I haven't got them to work yet.
- Even if they would work, they can only handle plain text. That makes it
- difficult to put any formatted information on our bboards (like very
- simple table's with class schedules).
-
- My second best solution was to use MacX on the Mac's, so that they would
- be able to use messages. This was not a very good solution since MacX is
- slow, and Mac users do not find messages easy to use.
-
- Then there is a conversion problem. Most of our documentation is in
- MS-Word format and some is in TeX. The RTF translators in the contrib
- directory don't work at all (in either direction). What I used so far is
- the Ness script 'fromrtf.n' that produces reasonable output with simple
- RTF documents, but it is not good enough for real use.
-
- Basically: it's very hard to convert to AMS in a mixed environment if
- there is no good support for non-unix clients.
-
- Are there any plans for more clever Mac/PC clients?
- Is there a good translator for RTF->ATK?
- Does any one have a description of the RTF format?
-
-
- Any help would be appreciated,
-
- Harco.
-