Re: [austechwriter] Merging of Framemaker files on Clearcase

[hedley_finger@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Subash:

> Our
> versioning environment is Rational Clearcase and we use branching system
to
> maintain various versions of the process documents. I would like to know
> whether Clearcase can merge Frame files as it merges Word documents. If
yes,
> how fool-proof is the process and what are the drawbacks (if any)?

You can safe your files as MIF, an ASCII text format like RTF and save them
to your repository.  Then you can merge the branches back together.

This works with Visual SourceSafe but I would suggest requesting an
evaluation copy of FrameMaker from Adobe to test whether branched versions
can be merged under ClearCase.  There is a FrameMaker plug-in called
mifSave which can save each component file of a book to MIF, so your
writers can work with the binary *.fm format while developing, then save to
ASCII *.mif files for checking in.

[Windows 2000, FrameMaker 6.0p405, FrameScript 1.27C01, Enhance 2.03,
Acrobat 4.05.2, mif2go 31u33, WebWorks Publisher 7.0, IXgen 5.5.h, HTML
Help Workshop 4.74 build 8702.0, HTML Help 1.31]

Regards,
Hedley

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