From: mark@drd.com (resident.alien)
Subject: Re: Frame and mail merge
Keywords: mail merge
Organization: DRD Corporation
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 13:27:47 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.020959.2723@newshost.anu.edu.au> pjy@merlinanu.edu.au (Peter Young) writes:
>
>Does anyone know about the rumoured public-domain software that provides a 
>mail-merge facility for use with Frame?

! Date:  Tue, 9 Apr 91 15:37:15 -0500
! From: harv@cis.ksu.edu (Harvard Townsend)
! Message-Id:  <9104092037.AA12809@depot.cis.ksu.edu>
! To: framers@tusun2.mcs.utulsa.edu
! Subject: FUN tape 2.1

The updated and expanded FUN tape for version 2.1 of Framemaker is now
available for anonymous FTP on procyon.cis.ksu.edu (129.130.10.80) in 
pub/FUN/FUN_Tape-2.1. The first file, file1.tar.Z, contains shell scripts 
used to read the tape and install the programs. The second file, file2.tar.Z
contains all the goodies that would normally be installed from the tape. 
There is a short README file in the same directory that gives some short
help on how to proceed (and I mean short!). file2.tar.Z is large 
(>4M compressed), so please try to transfer it during off-hours. It's about
10M uncompressed. Here are some of the changes from the 1.3 version:

	Convert WordStar v2.0 to MIF
	Convert WordMAARC to MIF
	Convert Interleaf Raster files to Sunraster
	fmmerge (mail merge) has been updated to 2.0 level
	Demonstration of Fusion Graphics included in the demo directory
	Source code included in the src directory
	Instructions and filter for converting Framemaker's PostScript to
	    EPS for use in LaTeX is included in src/latex.file
	Instructions and filter for converting troff/mm files into
	    Framemaker, located in src/mm2frame.file

FYI - the old FUN tape is still available in the FUN_Tape-1.3 directory on
procyon.
______________________________________
Harvard Townsend, Systems Manager
Dept. of Computing & Information Sciences 
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506   (913)532-6350
Internet:  harv@cis.ksu.edu
UUCP:      {rutgers, texbell}!ksuvax1!harv
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! Date: Fri, 29 Jun 90 17:17:38 EDT
! From: Dan Corrin <dan@engrg.uwo.ca>
! Subject: FUN tape

I have finally recieved a copy of the FUN tape. I have put it up for
anonymous ftp on sunbane.engrg.uwo.ca (129.100.4.12).

It is located in the ~ftp/pub/fun directory. There are two sub-directories
FUNtapecopyscripts which will allow you to create your own fun tape (and
extract everything), and FUNstuff which is my copy of the sun3 (as opposed
to sun4 and 386i) contents. Installing is not straight forward, but should
be able to be done without too much trouble.

I have altered (compressed) the image from the tape (FUNtapecopyscripts)
and altered the writeFUNmastertape shell script to account for compressed
data, however it has not been tested. If you have difficulties let
me know.

                                -Dan

                                        Dan Corrin
        dan@engrg.uwo.ca                System Manager
        D.Corrin@uwo.ca                 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
        Unbeliever@uwovax.BITNET        University of Western Ontario
        ...!watmath!julian!engrg!dan    London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B9
                                        (519) 661-3834

Also:

Bertrand.Decouty@irisa.irisa.fr
Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systemes Aleatoires
[Research Institute in Computer-science and Random Systems]
Rennes, France
irisa.irisa.fr [131.254.2.3], cd FrameMaker.
Bertrand has made all FIB's, FusionGraphics demo, along
with 3 filters [refer2mml, la2mml, wordtomif] also available.

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