Re: Conversion of doc from S/38 to AS/400

At 12:40 PM 7/11/97, Barbara Holcombe wrote:
>I am a documentation analyst and have been asked to do some research to
>try and find a solution to a documentation problem. The problem:  We have
>documentation for our legacy products that was last updated in 1989. It
>was written on a S/38 using Office Vision. Our company no long uses
>S/38s. They have changed to the AS/400. The documentation is really old
>and needs to be updated. We are thinking of converting the doc from
>Office Vision to Word (which is what we currently use). Once we do that,
>how can we put the doc out on the AS/400?


Back on the S/38 OfficeVision used a source file with some enhanced editing
to make paragraphs easier to use. These documents are 'plain text' with
embedded control characters for font, paragraph skips, etc.

 On the AS/400 this changed to a Folder/Subfolder/Document (read PC) type
structure.  The new structure has a much more PC-like file format; it's
based on the IBM DisplayWrite format.  It can be read by the ancient SMART
package, and by several other word processors.  I believe it is now DCA-RFT
(or DCA-FFT) compatible.

The folders can be read as an I: drive using Client Access/PC Support/Rumba.

Remember that if you plan to distribute the document on the AS/400 you can
not use a lot of fancy PC/Word formatting and embedded graphics; AS/400
green screens are text only!

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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