Omni Systems, Inc. Mif2Go User's Guide, Version 55
> 36 Converting via runfm > 36.6 Comparing runfm with the DCL command-line filter
With runfm
you can do any of the following:
runfm
commands in a Windows .bat
file.
The advantage of runfm
over the DCL command-line filter is availability of all the Mif2Go options that are excluded from DCL command-line
operation, including book conversion, template import, and postprocessing
steps; in other words, if you want to do any of the following:
.mif
files
See §37.1 How the DCL filter works.
However, with DCL you do not need FrameMaker
at all (just the MIF files to be converted), and you can use a Windows
.bat
file to execute system commands before
and after conversion. Also, DCL is faster, if all you are doing is including
documentation as part of a build process, after writers are satisfied
with the results of interactive conversions. See §37 Converting
via DCL.