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From: chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: FrameMaker file format needed
Keywords: FrameMaker
Message-ID: <1450@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Date: 23 Jan 89 20:10:18 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Technology Dept., Harris Corp., Melbourne, Fl.
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In article <922@laura.UUCP> hmm@laura.UUCP (Hans-Martin Mosner) writes:
>Hello all,
>I am in need for a description of FrameMaker's internal file format.  Every
>piece of information may help.  Reason: we get documentation files in
>FrameMaker format and don't want to use FrameMaker ourselves
>(partly because we think it's ugly, partly because we mostly work on non-Suns).

I don't know the internal format, because any licensed Frame user simply
uses MIF (Maker Interchange Format) when he needs to play with the file
format.  Can you get you docs in MIF, rather than Maker format?

>PS: No, I have not yet written to Frame directly.  In my experience responses
>from the net get here much faster...

This seems rather silly.  Send mail to sun!frame!comments and see what they
say.  If I were them... well, let's see what they say.

Chuck Musciano
Advanced Technology Department
Harris Corporation
(407) 727-6131
ARPA: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com