Re: Looking for Software
Barrie, We use DESQTOP from Monolith. I don't know if the software is still available. It is written in PICK basic and will run under Pick/Unidata/Universe/Prime. The word processor has a spell checker and will allow you to update words in the spell check dictionary. Some of their software can be embedded and called from your existing software. Rich Sammartino At 01:23 PM 1/26/2004 -0500, you wrote: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_=_NextPart_001_01C3E439.85AE210A" A snowy hello from Maryland. Does anyone know of a UniVerse or System Builder Word Processing package? We require spell checking, including the input of custom dictionary items and what MSWord calls AutoCorrect. This is a process that would take "shortcut" codes from the input and convert them to previously defined strings of perhaps technical, medical information. We currently have our staff enter the document, including the shortcut codes, in Word, then AutoCorrect it to convert the codes to text, then use System Builder to transfer the temporary ".txt" file to a record in one of our UniVerse files. Thanks for any responses. Barrie Matovcik MobilexUSA 410.773.2080 -- Mobilex USA E-Mail Confidentiality Notice CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This electronic mail transmission and any accompanying documents are intended for the use of Mobilex USA or for the use of the named addressee(s) to which it is directed and may contain information that is privileged or otherwise confidential. It is not intended for transmission to, or receipt by, anyone other than the named addressee(s) or a person authorized to deliver it to the named addressee(s). It should not be copied or forwarded to any unauthorized persons. If you received this electronic mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system without copying or forwarding it and notify the sender of the error by reply e-mail or by calling Mobilex Privacy Office at 1-866-686-1717 so that our records can be corrected. ___ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Richard Sammartino Systems Analyst Information Technology School District of Philadelphia 734 Schuylkill Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19146-2397 Phone: (215) 857-4734 Fax: (215) 893-4243 ___ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
RE: Looking for Software
Much as I would love people to start using WordPerfect again ... The latest WP/Unix I know of is 5.1 for SCO - I would be surprised if that wasn't revamped, though, to at least v6. There is a WP8/linux which is a native version. Unfortunately, it is libc5 based so it's a pain to install on any recent distro (recent as in the last two or three years at least!). I can email anyone the shareware version (including licence codes) if they want it, but for commercial use you need a paid-for licence which will be difficult to get. WP9 (Perfect Office 2000) was released in a linux version. BUT This was the version that was rewritten for "Windows only" and supplied for linux with WINE. Co-incidentally, this was why WINE suddenly improved so dramatically in this time period - Corel threw loads of engineering at it because they intended to "WINEify" all their apps. If I were implementing WP on a linux server, I'd get a copy of the Windows version (either WP10 or WP9), and run it using standard WINE. 9 will almost certainly work (I haven't tried it), 10 I don't know. Oh - get a fast server, because you'll need it. WP10 might be problematic, because this is the time MS threw a few million $ at Corel to get them to pull out of linux. Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dawn M. Wolthuis Sent: 26 January 2004 18:58 To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: Looking for Software Word Perfect used to have a UNIX version -- I don't know if that is still available. *** This transmission is intended for the named recipient only. It may contain private and confidential information. If this has come to you in error you must not act on anything disclosed in it, nor must you copy it, modify it, disseminate it in any way, or show it to anyone. Please e-mail the sender to inform us of the transmission error or telephone ECA International immediately and delete the e-mail from your information system. Telephone numbers for ECA International offices are: Sydney +61 (0)2 9911 7799, Hong Kong + 852 2121 2388, London +44 (0)20 7351 5000 and New York +1 212 582 2333. *** ___ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
RE: Looking for Software
It is also worth looking at Office 2003. You can set up the word document with xml described items like form fields. You can then save just the xml data which is the elements and values that you can pass back to system builder. I think you can reload the data back into the origional Word document through the same process, but I have not played around with it enough. Regards David Jordan Managing Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dacono Holdings Pty Ltd Business & Technology Consulting PO Box 909 Lane Cove NSW 2066 Australia Ph 61 2 9418 8329 Fax 61 2 9427 2371 www.dacono.com.au -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno Sent: Tuesday, 27 January 2004 2:28 PM To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: Looking for Software Barrie, you're not clear about exactly how and where you'd like the client interface to work (Win32/*nix?). It's easy to create a Windows interface which just uses the components you want out of Word - that is, the user may not need to fire up Word or use the Word UI, but the Word engine will still be there (and a license is required). When the user Saves a Word doc it can be stored in an MV environment. The question is, do you want Word? If you store the doc in Universe, you need to decide if you just want text or if you want formatting too (of course you can get both). If you strip formatting then the next time the doc is edited the user might want to add the formatting back - a bit of futility. If you want everything then Word can save as XML, which is pure text, so that the next time the doc is loaded it looks the same as when it was saved. I've done a lot of work with Word and the entire MS Office package. Please visit http://nebula-rnd.com/products/ and in particular the NebulaDoc page for more info. BTW, we also offer conversion from JET to Word with our software: ConnectingFlight. Good luck, Tony Nebula R&D -Original Message- From: Barrie Matovcik A snowy hello from Maryland. Does anyone know of a UniVerse or System Builder Word Processing package? We require spell checking, including the input of custom dictionary items and what MSWord calls AutoCorrect. This is a process that would take "shortcut" codes from the input and convert them to previously defined strings of perhaps technical, medical information. We currently have our staff enter the document, including the shortcut codes, in Word, then AutoCorrect it to convert the codes to text, then use System Builder to transfer the temporary ".txt" file to a record in one of our UniVerse files. Thanks for any responses. Barrie Matovcik MobilexUSA 410.773.2080 ___ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
RE: Looking for Software
Barrie, you're not clear about exactly how and where you'd like the client interface to work (Win32/*nix?). It's easy to create a Windows interface which just uses the components you want out of Word - that is, the user may not need to fire up Word or use the Word UI, but the Word engine will still be there (and a license is required). When the user Saves a Word doc it can be stored in an MV environment. The question is, do you want Word? If you store the doc in Universe, you need to decide if you just want text or if you want formatting too (of course you can get both). If you strip formatting then the next time the doc is edited the user might want to add the formatting back - a bit of futility. If you want everything then Word can save as XML, which is pure text, so that the next time the doc is loaded it looks the same as when it was saved. I've done a lot of work with Word and the entire MS Office package. Please visit http://nebula-rnd.com/products/ and in particular the NebulaDoc page for more info. BTW, we also offer conversion from JET to Word with our software: ConnectingFlight. Good luck, Tony Nebula R&D -Original Message- From: Barrie Matovcik A snowy hello from Maryland. Does anyone know of a UniVerse or System Builder Word Processing package? We require spell checking, including the input of custom dictionary items and what MSWord calls AutoCorrect. This is a process that would take "shortcut" codes from the input and convert them to previously defined strings of perhaps technical, medical information. We currently have our staff enter the document, including the shortcut codes, in Word, then AutoCorrect it to convert the codes to text, then use System Builder to transfer the temporary ".txt" file to a record in one of our UniVerse files. Thanks for any responses. Barrie Matovcik MobilexUSA 410.773.2080 ___ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
RE: Looking for Software
Title: Looking for Software The following are some thoughts as there are lots of options if you are using SB+ depending on your (windows)clients and skill sets. Are you running SB+ in CUI or GUI mode? Do you have someone with a clue about windows programming on your team? Are you prepared to retrain your users to use something other than Word? Are you running Samba (or similar) on the unix server? SB+ is somewhat ActiveX object aware, so in theory you can imbed the Word document into an SB+ GUI screen (i haven't tried but it should be possible). SB+ can use Windows Host Scripting to perform very powerful windows integration functions. As Dawn pointed out, it is not difficult to call a Unix editor and then you don't have to mess around with windows programming & transfers. You could use the SE editor included with SB+ and then run the text through a spell checker - Google, there are bound to be lots of open source ones. You can use Word and transfer the data back using samba, DDE, the windows clipboard or calling Uniobjects from within Word to drop the text into the database. Word also allows you to save files using FTP. This topic has come up on the sbsolutions list before - check the archives there too. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sbsolutions HTH, Stuart -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Barrie MatovcikSent: Tuesday, 27 January 2004 05:24To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: Stephen Borland; Paul WheelingSubject: Looking for Software A snowy hello from Maryland. Does anyone know of a UniVerse or System Builder Word Processing package? We require spell checking, including the input of custom dictionary items and what MSWord calls AutoCorrect. This is a process that would take "shortcut" codes from the input and convert them to previously defined strings of perhaps technical, medical information. We currently have our staff enter the document, including the shortcut codes, in Word, then AutoCorrect it to convert the codes to text, then use System Builder to transfer the temporary ".txt" file to a record in one of our UniVerse files. Thanks for any responses. Barrie Matovcik MobilexUSA 410.773.2080 -- Mobilex USA E-Mail Confidentiality Notice CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This electronic mail transmission and any accompanying documents are intended for the use of Mobilex USA or for the use of the named addressee(s) to which it is directed and may contain information that is privileged or otherwise confidential. It is not intended for transmission to, or receipt by, anyone other than the named addressee(s) or a person authorized to deliver it to the named addressee(s). It should not be copied or forwarded to any unauthorized persons. If you received this electronic mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system without copying or forwarding it and notify the sender of the error by reply e-mail or by calling Mobilex Privacy Office at 1-866-686-1717 so that our records can be corrected. ** This email message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of addressed recipient(s). If you have received this email in error please notify the Spotless IS Support Centre (61 3 9269 7555) immediately who will advise further action. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. ** ___ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: Looking for Software
a crazy idea, but you could use emacs - it even works on character based terminals, so no client side to install. it can spell check and do autocorrection using flyspell-mode (though it sounds like abbrev-mode is more like what you want). i shudder to think of training users in emacs though :-) rather than transferring the files around, how about a web based editor? seems better than installing something on the client and dealing with uploads. http://www.kevinroth.com/rte/demo.htm is free, or http://www.telerik.com/?context=products&step=1 looks nifty. you could have the terminal fire off a browser, and when they click "submit" the text would be saved back via cgi and the browser window closed... ian On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 10:23, Barrie Matovcik wrote: > A snowy hello from Maryland. Does anyone know of a UniVerse or System > Builder Word Processing package? We require spell checking, including > the input of custom dictionary items and what MSWord calls AutoCorrect. > This is a process that would take "shortcut" codes from the input and > convert them to previously defined strings of perhaps technical, medical > information. > > We currently have our staff enter the document, including the shortcut > codes, in Word, then AutoCorrect it to convert the codes to text, then > use System Builder to transfer the temporary ".txt" file to a record in > one of our UniVerse files. > > Thanks for any responses. > Barrie Matovcik > MobilexUSA > 410.773.2080 > > > > -- Mobilex USA E-Mail Confidentiality Notice CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: > This electronic mail transmission and any accompanying documents are > intended for the use of Mobilex USA or for the use of the named > addressee(s) to which it is directed and may contain information that is > privileged or otherwise confidential. It is not intended for > transmission to, or receipt by, anyone other than the named addressee(s) > or a person authorized to deliver it to the named addressee(s). It > should not be copied or forwarded to any unauthorized persons. If you > received this electronic mail transmission in error, please delete it > from your system without copying or forwarding it and notify the sender > of the error by reply e-mail or by calling Mobilex Privacy Office at > 1-866-686-1717 so that our records can be corrected. -- Ian McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: Looking for Software
re: Open Office: See Tools | Spellcheck | AutoSpellcheck (to enable/disable on the current document) or Tools | Options | Language Settings | Writing Aids (to set globally) As for format, they support XML but use other ones as well, including their own unique formats. re: UV Not to advocate MS Office, but it is possible to link into UV via UniObjects and VBA (thanks, Bjorn, I've put your Excel code to good use). Theoretically you could use UV as a data store for your documents. HTH, David Beahm Wendy Smoak wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We currently have our staff enter the document, including the shortcut codes, in Word, then AutoCorrect it to convert the codes to text, then use System Builder to transfer the temporary ".txt" file to a record in one of our UniVerse files. How about Open Office? It was annoyingly correcting my typing just last night! (I looked around but couldn't find where to turn that off.) IIRC, (and I didn't look) OpenOffice documents are pure XML, so they should be easy to store in UniVerse-- just text. It should be possible to write a "plugin" or something that would store the document directly into UniVerse. It's on my list to write one for Jedit, but I don't think it has the autocorrect function you want. (It might, there are a bunch of plugins, or someone could write one.) ___ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
RE: Looking for Software
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > We currently have our staff enter the document, including the > shortcut codes, in Word, then AutoCorrect it to convert the > codes to text, then use System Builder to transfer the > temporary ".txt" file to a record in one of our UniVerse files. How about Open Office? It was annoyingly correcting my typing just last night! (I looked around but couldn't find where to turn that off.) IIRC, (and I didn't look) OpenOffice documents are pure XML, so they should be easy to store in UniVerse-- just text. It should be possible to write a "plugin" or something that would store the document directly into UniVerse. It's on my list to write one for Jedit, but I don't think it has the autocorrect function you want. (It might, there are a bunch of plugins, or someone could write one.) -- Wendy Smoak Application Systems Analyst, Sr. ASU IA Information Resources Management ___ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
RE: Looking for Software
If I try to make some guesses, it sounds like you are running UniVerse on UNIX and your clients are Windows boxes with MS Word on them. Additionally, it sounds like you have a requirement or simply a desire to handle the word processing on the server, rather than the client. One thing leading you to this requirement is that data stored in UniVerse is integrating with the documents. For the server, you could try STAR Office from Sun -- I have no direct experience with it, but it is office software, including word processing, running on nothing-microsoft. Word Perfect used to have a UNIX version -- I don't know if that is still available. But unless you must store the documents themselves in UniVerse, you might want to work with a client/server approach such as ODBC from within MS Word. You might be able to tell from previous posts of mine that I know it takes word to make SQL work well with U2, but for integration with desktop office tools, it can be worth it. Doing the printing on the client has several advantages, but also some costs. Many, if not most, organizations have moved to client-based printing for much of their IT work. Of course, there's always downloading data (such as with CEDARVILLE DOWNLOAD) and then merging with a Word document. That's what I can think of off the top of my head. Best wishes. --dawn Dawn M. Wolthuis Tincat Group, Inc. www.tincat-group.com Take and give some delight today. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barrie Matovcik Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 12:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Stephen Borland; Paul Wheeling Subject: Looking for Software A snowy hello from Maryland. Does anyone know of a UniVerse or System Builder Word Processing package? We require spell checking, including the input of custom dictionary items and what MSWord calls AutoCorrect. This is a process that would take "shortcut" codes from the input and convert them to previously defined strings of perhaps technical, medical information. We currently have our staff enter the document, including the shortcut codes, in Word, then AutoCorrect it to convert the codes to text, then use System Builder to transfer the temporary ".txt" file to a record in one of our UniVerse files. Thanks for any responses. Barrie Matovcik MobilexUSA 410.773.2080 ___ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
