[rescue] FYI regarding FrameMaker 5.5 - WAS::::::::::Re: Downsizing Sun Eqpt

[remichael]

Jerry,

    About 2 months ago, I loaded the FM 5.5 onto my Ultra 1 running

Solaris 9.  The Serial/Registration Number is included on the CD sleeve.

The CD sleeve also lists WIndows 95/Windows NT, MacIntosh, and Unix.

And under Unix it lists requirements for SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX,

and IRIX.  This seems to imply that it could be loaded onto all these

systems.  Since the NVram battery is dead on my Ultra1, I did not

try configuring internet access.  So I don't know if it would try to register

itself.  When I last had it working (10 years ago in NC) I had a NewsPrinter 20

to use with it.  But the rollers of that printer turned to jelly by the time I moved

to IL.  A few months ago I had lunch with several former colleagues who

complained that they still could not produce decent diagrams and drawings

with MS stuff.  How they longed for FM.


Bob

> On March 26, 2018 at 11:01 PM Jerry Kemp wrote:
> 
> 
>     I have no "horse in this race", but I wanted to share this to assist who ever ends up with the Adobe FrameMaker 5.5 stuff.
>         * Unless this is a special CD, and it certainly could be, I expect this CD to not only support Solaris, but to be a *UNIX* cd, with
> 
>     binaries for:
> 
>     HP - HPUX
>     IBM - AIX
>     SGI - IRIX
>     Sun - SunOS 4.1.x
>     Sun - Solaris 2.4+
>         * Be it a stand-alone single license, or a shared license, the new owner will need some license to use this product.
> 
> 
>         * As part of the Sun (now Oracle) application binary compatibility guaranty, I've ran 5.5 on and up to Sol 10 successfully. I don't
> 
>     believe this is unique. Every Solaris admin probably has some application horror story, mine was with Veritas file system/volume
>     manager when moving from Solaris 2.5.1->Solaris 2.6, but for the most part, most everything application wise transitions up OK. I
>     have not tried FM 5.5 either on Oracle Solaris 11.x+ or on any of the open Solaris based distro's, but my educated guess is that FM
>     5.5 should run, as long as the IPv6 thing is addressed.
>         * There is one gotcha when running FrameMaker 5.5 to 6.0 on Solaris. I could turn this into a book, but I'm just going to share
> 
>     this old (and long gone) Adobe tech doc from the Wayback Machine:::
> 
> 
> 
>     ^^^^ Very important if you use IPv6, or just have IPv6 enabled.
>         * FrameMaker 7.x for Unix, and above, works fine with IPv6 interfaces enabled.
> 
> 
>         * Patches, updates, additional templates, etc, still available directly from Adobe here:::
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     ..........................
> 
>     I will probably never write a book, but I am required to do a lot of technical documentation. My tool of choice, for the last 20
>     years, has been FrameMaker on Solaris.
> 
>     Again, just hope this helps who ever ends up with this product.
> 
>     Jerry
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     On 26/03/18 20:51, remichael wrote:
> 
>         > > A pending move requires me to downsize my Sun collection. Any or all of the
> > 
> >         following items can be had for the cost of shipping. The exception is probably
> > 
> >         the CRT monitors, which would be very expensive to ship.
> > 
> >     >     STUFF DELETED HERE
> 
>         > > Software:
> > 
> >     > 
>         > > 1 FrameMaker 5.5 Sparc CD & Manuals (runs on Solaris 9)
> > 
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