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From: Messenger-AI.SBDERX@XEROX.COM
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Subject: Re: ViewPoint File Transfer
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Date: 6 Jun 88 17:28:33 GMT
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Re: "files imported via XDE cannot be read from ViewPoint"

Depends entirely what sort of files you are talking about.  It is true that
Viewpoint Documents cannot be imported via XDE, as thay are segmented files
which XDE knows nothing about (XDE will just read the first segment).  Any NS
file attributes will also get trashed when you read the files into XDE, but if
you are retrieving them from an Apollo system they are unlikely to be NS files.

So ...

Re: "1) Is there TCP/IP support under ViewPoint ?? (current or planned) ??"

No and no (to the best of my knowledge).

Re: "2) If not, is there any way to transfer files from my Apollo to the Xerox
running ViewPoint ??"

Yes, as you suggested, via ArpaFileTool in XDE.  As long as you are not
importing VP Documents or NS files you should be OK.  XDE does not munge the
contents of the file, only the attributes.  By the way, there is a neat VP hack
called XDE File Access which eases the pain of transfering files from XDE to VP
quite considerably.  If you don't have it, hassle your local support group ...
but don't tell them I said so ...

As this is Info-1100 I ought to mention that whatever you can do with TCP/IP in
XDE you can probably do better in Lisp.

   -- Hugh

Hippo.SBDERX@Xerox.COM

Please note that these are my own private opinions and do not necessarily
reflect the views of Xerox Corporation.  Actually, I cannot tell a lie, they are
not my opinions at all, they are the opinions of the little green men who come
out of the walls at night and stick wires in my head.