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If wanting to keep it simple, store the docs in the /home dir in IFS for
each user, map a drive on each pc to that dir, put Word (or if not heavily formatted - Open Office (its free) on each pc. I wouldn't add a Win server "only" for this. Have a customer with thousands of docs done like this (using
Word). They don't want the addtl requirements to keep a win Server
always up, safe & secure. They are comfortable with the speed of
word processing (on an iSeries 800) and love that it is backed up with
iSeries data. No tech on site. No administrator. It just runs.
Have done the OV to rtf conversion, then saved as .doc but was
not automated. They hired someone for a month to do thousands of docs.
jim franz

----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Barber" <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 11:20 AM
Subject: Batch conversion of OV/400 docs to Word docs


I can recall seeing somebody who had software that
would do the batch converison.

I have a customer with 42,000 + documents that I
need to get in a Word format.

We want to put them in a new 520 and I guess
Word is the only thing in the picture at the moment.

They are a fairly heavy user of word processing
and don't require text data merge, soooooo I guess
a Windows server is in their future. They have
around 25-30 users. They use no other features of
OV/400.


That brings up another question.

Would you install a Windows server with Office or just
install Word on each pc ?

Neither is very attractive but I'm stuck with no solution.

Did I mention 25-30 twinax terminals ???






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