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- Subject: Re: Part Server
- Sent: 7/10/96 8:10 PM
- Received: 7/11/96 8:52 AM
- From: Greg Friedman, friedman@cognosis.com
- Reply-To: ODF Interest, ODF-Interest@CILabs.ORG
- To: OpenDoc Development Framework Discussion List, ODF-Interest@CILabs.
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- Scott Daniels wrote:
- > Hi,
- >
- > In a previous message, Greg Friedman wrote:
- >
- > > Unfortunately, OpenDoc doesn't provide a solution on Windows right now.
- > It
- > > is unlikely that OSA will make it into the Windows implementation of
- > > OpenDoc.
- >
- > You have got to be kidding me! This sure is a bombshell!! So much for
- > OpenDoc being cross-platform. I read the post from the OpenDoc list
- > regarding a scheme for an object message layer to fix this utter disaster,
- > but it seemed possibly far off.
- >
- > So, under windows, how should I proceed in the meantime? I want third
- > party apps to be able to drive my part, so I can't use some proprietary
- > scheme. Using OLE automation would be no problem if I were writing on OLE
- > server, but since I am doing an OpenDoc part how do I support OLE
- > automation? Any ideas? If you refer me to the OpenDoc list, would you
- > provide the directions to subscribe?
- >
- > Sorry if I sound rather upset, but this is a real blow to my expectations.
- > I was tempted to write our part using OLE a year ago, but my boss wanted
- > me to use OpenDoc. I am beginning to regret not going with OLE, seeing
- > that OpenDoc is going to be a Mac-only thing in this area (a big one I
- > might add).
-
- You can subscribe to the OpenDoc Interest list by sending mail to:
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- listproc@cilabs.org
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- with a body of
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- subscribe opendoc-interest yourfirstname yourlastname
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- (with the obvious substitutions).
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- I suggest you voice your concerns on that list.
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- Establishing a mechanism for interprocess communication is within the
- OpenDoc realm. Without a functional cross-platform mechanism in place,
- there isn't much we can do in the framework.
-
- Greg.
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- Greg Friedman ODF Engineering Apple Computer
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