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RE: WordPerfect Office 3.1

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From: McMahon,Brian D
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:09
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> > We've been looking into purchasing WP Office 3.1 and one of our questions
> > is how/if this will interface with PMDF (4.1-7).  Whilst I wade through
> > the WP Office manuals I thought I'd see if anyone has any input on the
> > viability of this idea.
>
> If you're referring to the VMS implementation, there is a foreign protocol
> interface to VMS MAIL that PMDF can talk to. This interface does work, but
> a fair amount of richness is lost (attachments, formatting, etc.).

If you feel like spending {money|time|hair off your head}, you might also
check into the Messy Router Gateway for WP Office.  It might help with some
of the formatting problems.  We do not run WP Office, so I will make no
guarantees.  Caveat emptor.

Brian McMahon (BDM13)    <MCMAHON@GRIN1.BITNET>    <MCMAHON@AC.GRIN.EDU>
Postmaster / Acad. Software Support   Grinnell College Computer Services
Grinnell, Iowa 50112 USA   Voice: +1 515 269 4901   Fax: +1 515 269 4936
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