FrameMaker a powerful professional WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) document preparation package which is suitable for complex documents. It should not be used for email or dotfile editing, for example, but for theses, papers, and other formatted documents. FrameMaker is produced and marketed by Adobe Systems - FrameMaker Products. The FrameMaker suite on Athena include the main interface as well as many supporting programs.
FrameMaker 7.2 is the default version on Athena Suns (i.e., this is the version obtained by typing: add frame; maker &)
FrameMaker 7.1 is also available. You can run it by typing add frame; maker -ver 7.1 &
(there is currently no Linux release)
General usage information can be found in the What Runs Where listing and in the frame locker (type attach frame; more /mit/frame/README.athena).
FrameMaker is an officially supported software package for the MIT Athena Computing Environment. By "officially supported" we mean:
Help with FrameMaker
If you are affiliated with MIT,
contact Athena Consulting (on Athena,
type "olc"). Otherwise, see the other resources above or contact the
vendor for help.
Sending bug reports
Athena users should report problems
via the "sendbug" command.
Software at MIT
Questions or suggestions about
availability of software on Athena should be sent to
3partysw@mit.edu.
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