Re: IXgen and Unix

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Jeff Carver" <knowone@surfy.net>
> While I am using W2K and probably can use IXgen,
> my colleagues are on HP Unix systems. I know that 
> the documentation for IXgen only mentions
> implementation on Sun Unix OS. 
> 
> Knowing what little I do about this group already, 
> I suspect that someone out there has tried IXgen 
> on an HP Unix system!
> 
> Well, has anyone tried IXgen on HP Unix?

No, but I can tell you anyway that it wouldn't work.
IXgen is an API client, that is, a binary executable file.
It is compiled for a particular OS/platform/processor.
An executable file for SunOS/Solaris cannot be executed on
an HP-UX system, period.

> It would be used with FM+SGML 6.0. Failing use
> of IXgen on HP Unix, are there other indexing tools
> that can be used with this setup?

The only other indexing tool I know of is IndexTools by
Silicon Prairie Software: http://www.kagi.com/SPSoftware/
But they only have a UNIX version for Solaris, not HP-UX...

If you're looking for a better user interface for creating
and managing index entries, I think you're out of luck for
HP-UX (unless FM 7.0 has improved on it--don't hold your breath...)
It's possible to write a script that would extract index marker
text out of MIF files and present or manipulate them in other
ways. It depends on exactly what you want to do and how.
I have thought of doing something like that for UNIX.


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