*************************************************************** ****************** WELCOME TO SGML NEWSWIRE ******************* *************************************************************** * * * To subscribe, send mail to sgmlinfo@avalanche.com * * * * (Please pass along to interested colleagues) * * * *************************************************************** NOVELL: COMMERCIAL HYPERTEXT APPS ================================= The following posting from Novell's Jon Bosak was recently found on the comp.text.sgml and alt.hypertext USENET newsgroups. Persons looking for examples of commercial hypertext applications based on SGML may be interested in the following announcement, which was posted recently in comp.sys.novell. The NetWare 3.12 document set described below is freely available and demonstrates how basic hypertext concepts can be applied to existing printed materials. The electronic version contains all of the text and illustrations in the printed NetWare 3.12 manual set, which runs about 5000 pages. All of the books in the set were originally authored in FrameMaker and then converted to SGML using Avalanche FastTAG. After validation with the sgmls parser, the SGML was indexed using DynaText 1.5 from Electronic Book Technologies. The "ElectroText" viewer included with the set is a customized version of the DynaText 1.5 viewer for MS-Windows. We are currently in the process of converting from our old "homemade" DTD to the industry-standard DocBook DTD and from the old DynaText 1.5 environment to the current DynaText 2.x. We plan to make available revised versions of our manual sets using new viewers running across multiple platforms sometime in the first quarter of 1994. Jon Bosak Novell Corporate Publications ================================================ NETWARE 3.12 ELECTRONIC MANUALS AVAILABLE BY FTP ================================================ The ElectroText online documentation set for NetWare 3.12 is now available for download via anonymous ftp from ftp.novell.com in the directory /pub/documentation/corppubs/nw312. This release corrects a file-naming error in the collection provided on the NetWare 3.12 CD. It may be downloaded and used by anyone needing information about NetWare 3.12. Contents -------- This release includes both the electronic version of the NetWare 3.12 manual set and the ElectroText viewer for Windows. The complete set occupies about 41 MB of disk space and can be installed on either a NetWare server or a standalone workstation. Obtaining the manual set ------------------------ Download the set as follows: 1. ftp ftp.novell.com (or ftp 137.65.1.1) 2. Give your name as "ftp" and enter your email address when prompted for a password. 3. Enter the following commands at the ftp prompt: bin hash cd /pub/documentation/corppubs/nw312 4. Download directions for installing the manual set with the command get README 5. The manual set itself is available in two forms: a large compressed file named nw312d8.zip created with pkzip 2.04g and another large compressed file named nw312d8.tar.Z created with the Unix tar and compress utilities. Choose one of these two files depending on whether you wish to install the set using pkunzip running under DOS or uncompress and tar running under Unix. ElectroText currently runs only under Windows, so most users will want to download nw312d8.zip. The file nw312d8.tar.Z is provided for system administrators who wish to install the document set from a Unix system for network access from Windows workstations. Download one of the two large compressed files by entering either get nw312d8.zip or get nw312d8.tar.Z Make sure that you have previously entered the hash command to keep your connection from timing out during the download. 6. If you do not already have a copy of pkunzip, download it with the command get pkunzip.exe 7. Enter bye to close the connection. 8. Follow the directions in the README file to install the manual set. Note: Some sites will experience problems in downloading the manual set due to the large size of the compressed file. If you have set "bin" and "hash" according to the directions above and you still can't transfer the file successfully, then there is something wrong with your system configuration. Contact your system administrator for assistance in adjusting your system's spool size or timeout parameters. Novell cannot assist you in troubleshooting ftp transfer problems, and the complexity of the manual set's directory structure prevents us from providing its components in separate files. If you cannot download the manual set, it can be ordered on CD. See the ordering information included with your copy of NetWare 3.12 or contact your Novell distributor for details. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Bosak -*- Information Architect -*- Novell Corporate Publications -------------------------------------------------------------------- bosak@netcom.com ************************************************************** * SGML NEWSWIRE LIST MANAGER * * * * Linda Turner * * Corporate Communications * * Avalanche * * 947 Walnut Street * * Boulder, CO 80302 * * sgmlinfo@avalanche.com * * linda@avalanche.com * * Vox: (303) 449-5032 * * Fax: (303) 449-3246 * **************************************************************