OpenVMS Differences Document

[Chris Sharman]

>The PowerHouse manuals will be available on CD (PDF format files). In fact
>you can download the current edition (no OpenVMS stuff yet) from our web
>site. Most of our users have PCs (sorry Chris) and having a searchable
>reference manual set made having online help redundant. We are looking at
>other formats for the manuals but it doesn't look promising. It would have
>to be something we can generate with our current document source (we use
>FrameMaker) or from the PDF files.

No problem with HTML (Netscape 3.03 can do that).
Xpdf 0.9 from http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html
does a mostly good job on PDF (but compression requires decryption, on which
the US has a bunch of silly export restrictions).
It's MS proprietary I hate. I have Laola, which sometimes does an adequate job
on MS word plain text, but I'm aware of nothing to read .xls.

But this should all be part of the testing of a new release: the docs should be
checked for readability on the platform they're shipping for, on a 'lowest
common denominator' basis. You should no more expect me to install Pentium + IE
5.5 or whatever than you would expect me to upgrade to VMS 7.2-1. Most of the
software I see ships with docs in HTML, PS, & text, and sometimes PDF or
manpages too.

Chris
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Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk		http://www.ccagroup.co.uk/
CCA Stationery Ltd, Eastway, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 9WS.
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