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Conference vaxuum::document_ft

Title:DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:**New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)**
Moderator:CLOSET::ADLER
Created:Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:897
Total number of notes:4397

292.0. "BL07 .vs. BL08 ???" by CONRAD::SERACK (Ken Serack) Wed Apr 22 1987 20:31

    
    Our writers are beginning to ask when the Field Test Upgrade will
    be available and what will they have to change in the way they process
    document files. Obviously they will have to change file extensions.
    What else changes? Will there be a BL07 to BL08 converter? 
    
    We would appreciate any advance information we can get.
    
    Thanks,
    Ken Serack                                                       
    DECwest Engineering
    
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292.1VAXUUM::ADLERWed Apr 22 1987 22:5310
Besides file extensions, the other change affects those who have local doctypes
based on our standard doctypes. The names and extensions of those standard 
.DTP files have been changed, so the line in your .DTP file which says
"\input DOC$STANDARD_FORMATS:foo.DTP" will have to be changed.

Incidentally, before people start yelling at us for changing names midstream,
we had to do it to conform to SQM guidelines. We did *not* do it on a whim
(though, who knows, we may do it on a whim for V1.1 (-;).

--Brian
292.2This is news to meCOOKIE::JOHNSTONThu Apr 23 1987 14:578
Is there a document that describes changes between BL07 and the next 
release?  This is the first I've heard about file extension changes, and
now I'm curiouser and curiouser.


Thanx

Rose
292.3release notesVAXUUM::KOHLBRENNERThu Apr 23 1987 15:321
    The release notes will reveal all.
292.4here's a peekCLOSET::ANKLAMThu Apr 23 1987 20:077
    
    The good news is that there are no SDML tag syntax changes. A BL7
    file will run on BL8, regardless of whether its filetype is GNC
    or SDML. If it doesn't, it's a bug. The converter will be changed
    (it includes bug fixes) mainly in that its output file will be
    named .SDML and the input file will stay GNC.
    
292.5Ghosts of Old Drafts Past...ALIEN::BELMANFri May 01 1987 14:3411
    I recently did a bookbuild using BL7 and got lots of "line too long"
    errors.  So I thought, what the heck, I'll try BL8.  The book built,
    but it contained old draft material -- before I had entered edits
    (LOTS of edits).  I panicked until I checked the source files, and
    they contained the edits.  There were lots of intermediary files
    hanging around in the directory, so I moved all the source files
    to another, otherwise empty directory, and the build went fine.
    
    My guess is, then, that DOCUMENT used some old intermediate file.
    If it does that, a warning to that effect would probably be useful.
    The other possibility is that I have finally gone off the wall...
292.6gotcha?VAXUUM::KOHLBRENNERFri May 01 1987 15:2015
    Did your bookbuild command line point at device:[directory]
    explicitly?  If you said
    
    $ DOCU dev:[dir]foo doctype dest
    
    then DOCUMENT tried to default the filetype to SDML.  If it
    didn't find dev:[dir]foo.sdml, then it removed the "sdml" and
    tried to use "gnc" (as a kindness to folks whose alarms did
    not go off this morning).  But, there is a bug... when "gnc"
    gets added the "dev:[dir]" part gets dropped!  SO it then
    went looking for "[]foo.gnc" instead of "dev:[dir]foo.gnc".
    If it found []foo.gnc, it proceeded happily on its way,
    probably with the wrong file, containing <element> tags that
    were referencing old GNC files.
    
292.7I don't think so, but not sureVAXUUM::BELMANFri May 01 1987 18:2810
    No, I was in the directory where the files were, so the command
    line was
    
    $ DOCUMENT/CONTENTS/INDEX xxxxPROFILE.GNC S.S LN03
    
    However, as you see, my file types are still .GNC -- but
    I had PURGEd, so there weren't old versions of the sourcefiles
    around.  That's why I concluded it must be an intermediate
    file...  
    
292.8Add A New Keyword, please Mr. ModeratorCOOKIE::JOHNSTONFri May 01 1987 20:165
Are we talking about upgrades already?  How about a new keyword -- 
such as BL08 or FIELD_UPGRADE or UPGRADE1 or???


Rose
292.9BL WHAT?3D::BOYACKpithy...pithy...pithyMon May 04 1987 12:238
    What the....?
    
    WHAT BL8? Did I miss something? Point me to the note that tells
    me where to get it.
    
    Thanks
    
    Joe
292.10The light dawns...ALIEN::BELMANMon May 04 1987 13:163
    I was getting old draft material because I was printing the
    .LN3 file -- just noticed that it is now .LN03.  Makes a
    good argument for cleaning up the old directory...
292.11not a bug, thank goodnessCLOSET::ANKLAMTue May 05 1987 13:315
    
    Thanks for posting the info. That was going to be a tricky bug to
    try to duplicate!
    
    patti