[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-23 02:43:24 +0000, JF Mezei said:

> John Wallace wrote:
> 
>> It also occurs to me that in documenting this occurence, CDA (compound
>> document architecture) and its transparent integration with text-only
>> apps would have been quite handy.
> 
> 
> While CDA support is still present and RMS still able to exttact text
> from CDA documents, Palmer/Digital stopped developping the converters
> and sold them to another company who did one or two versions and we
> haven't heard from since.
> 
> I believe the original converters are now included on the freeware CD.


AFAIK, the CDA stuff was not sold off.

And yes, CDA was quite slick.  But it never saw particularly broad adoption.

There are two sets of CDA converters around.

One subset is available within and installed as part of DECwindows.

The other set of converters is available on the OpenVMS Freeware.

Rummage around for the RTF CDA converters for some details (that's the 
CDA converter that has probably been discussed most often over the 
years), and also see the CONVERT /DOCUMENT command.


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