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
