Re: Revision Bars

[Beverly Parks <bparks -at- HUACHUCA-EMH1 -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL>]

Thanks, Rob, for posting that solution. I'm keeping it for
future reference, although we have upgraded to Interleaf 5.4
where the problem (bug number 25374) has allegedly been fixed.
(But I still haven't used them).

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> In an article yesterday Beverly Parks commented on the persistent rev
> bars in Interleaf (this is posted from a different site from my receive
> site).

> We the same problem - still do on occasions when we are not
> very careful about when we use the persistent setting.  But we have a
> simple solution (other than not use them).  If you are running on a Unix
> site or have access to the MKS Tool Kit utility, sed, for PCs, you can
> do the following.  Save the Interleaf document in ASCII and run the
> following sed script (enter it as one line) on the file:

>   sed -e 's/\ -at- R//g;/<\!Revision Tracking,/d;
>                  /Persistent Rev Bars =        /d'
>                  filename.doc > filename2.doc

> If you want to automate it, you can use an awk script to check if the
> file is in binary form, run a command line resave to ascii, execute the
> above script (or awk equivalent) and resave the output as Interleaf
> binary.  Do not run the sed script on a binary version of the file - you
> might never see the contents of the file again!