With a minimum of changes, I have made a version working
on VMS ( Alpha, Compaq C V6.+ , Vax should work as well).
Preliminary: replace misc.c by the version modified for VMS here:
misc.c
Execute "make -f makefile.vms" (if You have GNU make).
Or,
if You have MMS , simply type "MMS" using the
DESCRIP.MMS descriptor file provided here.
Without make or MMS, compile everything, except main_r,
then link main_u (the common Unix- and VMS main program)
and all other object files.
(all commands are in vms_make.com).
Optional changes for VMS
Global file directory and the /usr path
You may want to change the location of the global file directory
( macro GLOBAL_ANTIWORD_DIR in header-file antiword.h ) holding the files
from the [.resources] subdirectory:
change /usr/share/antiword to a different location (in Unix syntax), unless You
define a VMS logical device "/usr" ( USR:[SHARE.ANTIWORD] ).
On my system the logical usr looks like this:
"USR" [super] = "SYS$SYSDEVICE:[UTIL.]" [concealed] (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)
I will not change the source for this , since there is no convention in VMS
for those user-shared files (or ?).
VMS 7.3-1 introduces a SYS$POSIX_ROOT logical: simply create the usr/
directory tree under SYS$POSIX_ROOT.
V 0.34so uses an environment-variable ANTIWORDHOME to find the global
setup directory. Define it in VMS as a logical, directory-name in
VMS-syntax (dev:[directory]).
DEBUG option and the /tmp path
To compile the sources with the DEBUG option, have a look into the *2eps.c
files: they write image files to a directory /tmp/pics/...
Either define a concealed logical TMP (e.g. to point to sys$scratch), or change
the 3 source files to point to sys$scratch: instead of /tmp/pics/.
All newer VMS versions (since V7.?) contain a DECC RTL, with a specific
handling of "/tmp": it translates to sys$scratch, if no "tmp" logical is
defined. So usually it is enough to create a directory [.pics] in your user
root.
Installation:
define a foreign command pointing to antiword.exe
or
copy antiword.exe into dcl$path:
Setup/font files:
System-wide: copy the [.resources] file into the directory defined by
/usr/share/antiword
Private: create directory [.ANTIWORD] in sys$login:
copy the [.resources] files into the newly created directory.
Usage
Produce a postscript file from a word-document:
pipe antiword -p a4 file.doc >file.ps
A DCL commandfile in our DCL$PATH directory does the postscript conversion
and X11 display with Ghostscript in one go:
wordviewer.com
Use it in a commandline like this: wordviewer testdoc
Comment applying to all GNU/Unix style programs compiled with DECC:
The interpretation of command-line switches and path-names can be influenced
by several DECC$* logical names, most important ones are:
$ define DECC$ARGV_PARSE_STYLE "ENABLE"
$ SET PROCESS/PARSE_STYLE=EXTENDED
These 2 settings preserve case of foreign command-lines
( otherwise `antiword -L` has to be typed as `antiword -"L"` )
$ define DECC$DISABLE_TO_VMS_LOGNAME_TRANSLATION "ENABLE"
path foo/bar translates to [.foo]bar; if disabled, it translates to foo:[bar]
(but some programs will not work , java in particular !)
How to define a global antiword directory /usr/share/antiword :
Let's assume the global directory in VMS is SYS$SYSDEVICE:[UTIL.SHARE.ANTIWORD]
$ dir sys$sysdevice:[util.share.antiword]
Directory SYS$SYSDEVICE:[UTIL.SHARE.ANTIWORD]
8859-1.TXT;1 ...
$ define/trans=concealed usr sys$sysdevice:[util.]
$ ls /usr/share/antiword/
8859-1.txt ...
This way "/usr/share/antiword/" in the C program is equvalent to
SYS$SYSDEVICE:[UTIL.SHARE.ANTIWORD]
Please send VMS-specific questions to me:
huber@mppmu.mpg.de
Joseph Huber ,
http://wwwvms.mppmu.mpg.de/~huber/
2003-10-06 huber@mppmu.mpg.de