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Conference abbott::teamlinks_windows

Title:	TeamLinks for Windows
Notice:	Kit and ECO locations: See replies to note 8.o note 8.
Moderator:	ORION::chayna.zko.dec.com::tamara::eppesAN

Created:	Mon Aug 28 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2238
Total number of notes:	9650

2067.0. "\d command in WPS-PLUS file not printing date" by OASS::ANDRES_B () Tue Mar 18 1997 11:45

    If this has not already been reported I will be surprised I just
    could not find this.
    
    This site is using ALL-IN-1 as their server.  They have been
    used to using WPS-PLUS as the editor.  The users are moving to
    TeamLinks.  The users a printing their WPS-PLUS documents from
    TeamLinks and the \d command in a control block is not printing
    the date.  
    
    The file in WPS-PLUS
    
    -----------Start Control------
    bottom
    
    \d
    ------------End Control-------
    
    
    When printing from TeamLinks the date is not printing if a control
    block is used for the \p to print the page number this works.
    
    I tested at the CSC and was able to reproduce the issue.  Has this
    been reported, should it work?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Beth

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2067.1	No, I don't think so.	MANANA::HOVEY		`Tue Mar 18 1997 16:55`	21
	Unfortunately, there isn't a get/no_get list of features for the wps-plus viewer. There are so many nooks and cranies to wps-plus the approach was to give the viewer a pile of sample documents and essentially trust the vendor to do a good job rather than get bogged down trying to price out each "feature" in a contract. I think the decision was the right one; but it does make it difficult to answer the question should "this" be working. In this case I would say the answer is no (unless it used to work and is now broken). The TeamLinks wps-plus viewer is a "viewer" not a formatter. The wps-plus application on VMS is a formatter. The difference is that one supports computed content and the other does not. In the same way the wpl viewer can view an index or table of contents; but cannot generate one. Where as WPS-PLUS on VMS will generate/update the index/toc. So why is the page number feature there? I guess it was an easy feature to hook up. Something their viewer already knew how to do for the other formats it supports; where as computing the date on the fly was not. I wish I had a better answer for you.
2067.2	Print to Server	IOSG::NEWLAND	Richard Newland, IOSG, REO2-F/J9	`Wed Mar 19 1997 11:25`	7
	TeamLinks V2.7 has a Print to Server option which causes the formatting to be performed by the ALL-IN-1 Server instead of the TeamLinks client. Therefore for WPS-PLUS documents the WPS-PLUS Formatter will be used and the /d option will be processed. Richard