RE: SGML worries

["Mike Hiatt" <mhiatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, but...

There are all sorts of work arounds. You can always open the Frame version
you want to use first and then go in search of the file you want. Or find
the file and perform John's little trick.

I'm often searching for a file and rather than have to start Frame, would
rather double click and have Frame come up. When we were using both versions
of Frame at the same time and having installed Frame 6 last, that meant that
90% of the time things worked just fine. And I didn't have a problem
muttering to myself that I'd forgotten the file I was going to need was
5.5.6 when I'd get the upgrade message.

What was really irritating (and still seems slightly ludicrous since MS
seems to spend all sorts of time helping me do things I don't want to do,
but can't seem to help me do what I need to do) was the inability to
choose - for myself - which version of Frame I want to use when I double
click a file. And even worse, after deleting FM 5.5.6 after I'd loaded it
after Frame 6, Windows 2000 would not open files with FM 6 even after I went
to the trouble to tell it that's what it should do.

Nuff said on this topic.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-framers@omsys.com [mailto:owner-framers@omsys.com]On Behalf
Of Hogan, John T. (ESA)
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:13 AM
To: framers@omsys.com; 'Framers@FrameUsers.com'
Subject: RE: SGML worries


It is possible to choose which version of Frame to use when opening *.fm
files. I copied the shortcuts for FrameMaker 5.5 and 6.0 from the 'Start
Menu\Programs' folder and pasted both in the 'SendTo' folder. Then, when I
want to choose a particular version to start in, I just right-click the file
icon and choose the version from the 'SendTo' sub-menu (double-clicking a
file icon opens version 6.0 unless version 5.5 is already running).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Hiatt [mailto:mhiatt@vocaldata.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 7:11 AM
> To: Lee Richardson; framers@omsys.com
> Subject: RE: SGML worries
>
>
> This is all Windows (2000 specifically) related.
>
> It didn't work quite that easily for me. I had to reinstall
> FM 5.5.6 to
> tinker with a document from a previous release of software
> that I didn't
> want upgraded to 6.0. Of course, that meant Windows now
> wanted to open all
> .fm files with 5.5.6, which doesn't work very well for files
> created in FM6.
>
> So I uninstalled FM 5.5.6 when finished. Yup, got the dialog
> that Windows
> didn't know what program to use. Selected FrameMaker (not FM6, just a
> generic FrameMaker listing) and applied it. Guess what? Got
> the same dialog
> box every time. So I reloaded FM6. Solved the opening .fm
> files problem, but
> I had to reset several files in FM so that IXGen would work again.
>
> I was rather suprised that in Windows 2000 there weren't
> separate listings
> for FM6 and FM5.5.6 when I wanted to select which program to
> use to open .fm
> file. Rather there was a generic FrameMaker listing you could
> choose, which
> (as we all know from reading this list) is whichever version
> of Frame you
> installed last.
>
> Mike Hiatt
> Manager, Tech Pubs
> VocalData, Inc.
> Dallas, TX (yep, that one)
> mhiatt@vocaldata.com
>
> Lee Richardson wrote:
> "you need to tell windows to reassociate the .fm file type to
> the original
> copy of FrameMaker you installed."
>
>
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