Re: OF indicator confusion

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been a proponent of externally-defined PRTFs since working at 
Help Systems around 1990 - they used to have a product called 
PrintCoder that was a much better designer than RLU, but they decided 
to sell it and concentrate on automated operations, not diffuse their 
energies in other areas. I think it is out there under another name - 
maybe Gumbo's product.

I did learn to use RLU, although it's always a few minutes to get 
back to it, as we don't use PRTFs much here. Somehow it never seemed 
all that different to use PRTFs vs O-specs, just different keywords. 
But the Code Designer is cool.

Vern

At 07:47 AM 8/31/2007, you wrote:

> I did the same thing, Tom: Internally-defined printer files.  The only
> way to define externally-described printer files was either manually,
> which can be painful, or RLU, which is more painful.  When WDSc came
> bundled, though, and included Code Designer, my life changed
> (hallelujah!).  I still wind up fine-tuning the DDS manually upon
> occasion, but by then it's just a matter of adding a keyword (HIGHLIGHT,
> UNDERLINE, or such) here and there.
>
> Is EXCPT even recognized by RSE as a free-form op-code?  Since switching
> to externally-described printer files, I haven't had to use it, so I
> wouldn't know.
>
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