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- From: mlord@bmers63.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
- Subject: Re: How is FrameMaker under OS/2?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.222552.16074@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: BNR, Ottawa, Canada
- References: <1993Jan26.042652.26256@odetics.com>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 22:25:52 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.042652.26256@odetics.com> frank@odetics.com (Frank Merrow) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- >I do not have an OS/2 system up yet, but I am being gently pushed
- >in that direction. I asked the FrameMaker folks if my MS-Windows
- >version would run under OS/2. The official answer is "not reliably".
- >Then I noticed the one byte patch in the OS/2 FAQ (thank you
- >Tim). I less trusting individual might think that FrameMaker had
- >deliberatly put an OS/2 incompatable instruction in the code, but I
- >would never think such a thing!
- >
- >At any rate, I was wondering if anyone had actually attempted the
- >patch and how well FrameMaker then runs under OS/2. Also, once
- >patched will the MAKER.EXE file still run under MS-Windows? FrameMaker
- >is the ONE program that is holding me to MS-windows.
-
- As the orginator of said patch, though I have never acknowledged it,
- perhaps I ought to comment..
-
- As near as I can tell, on my standalone 486 system (ie. no LAN products),
- it works as well as it did under DOS+WINDOWS. No differences that I can see.
- Editing, templates, fonts, printing, etc.. all work just peachy. Note that
- FrameMaker prefers Windows 3.1 for the truetype fonts, but it works just fine
- under windows 3.0.. some font names differ, that's all.
-
- The patched file works just fine under DOS+WINDOWS as well, so long as you
- ensure that you only try it in Windows Enhanced mode, never "standard" or "real"
- modes (the patch simply removes the check for those). Under OS/2, either
- standard mode or (beta 2.1) Enhanced mode are fine.
-