ANPA1312 ... American Newspaper Association (now NAA) defined wire format for tranmission of text and pictures. Defined in 1979. See www.naa.org and for the specification ...

Install FIP AP Atom feed handler this version: 001 25aug09 (to do more testing and troubleshooting) Contents Overview Install and configure AP Atom on FingerPost ...

Install FIP AP Atom feed handler this version: 002 12 March 2010 new navigation Contents Overview Install and configure AP Atom on FingerPost Prerequisites ...

Fip Header structure The Fip Header is a means of carrying metadata around with a file. It is placed at the top of a file and is delimited by a ~ (tilde sign) followed ...

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A Carriage return is an octal 15 character and is represented infip tables as a \015 or \r. See NewLine for more information on line endings.

Incoming Copy Flow Stage Program Queue Used Remarks Syntax Used with examples ...

An xchg to apply to a simple text file to generate an HTML email The aim is to get a simple text file that looks like this: Headline some very exciting text some more ...

The Guide to the FIP Data Formatting Module Relevent Program documentation. form ipformd ipformat ipformbl ipformch ipfsel ipfprep ipfchk ...

Fip New DataFormats Administrators Manual this version: 003 26may06 Overview The new version of the DataFormatting module extends and replaces the existing version ...

Fip New Data Formats User Notes this version: 004 22may07 Overview The new version of the data formatting module, extends and replaces the existing version by ...

Dataformatting examples How to insert commas into numbers using partials so 10000000 become 10,000,000 DotFingerPost 02 Mar 2006 Notes and Comments ...

Basic Directory Structure The fip file structure all descends from /fip. However, in order to facilitate disc space management /fip need only be a symbolic link to ...

Name: Dot FingerPost Login Name: Dot Email: dot #64;fingerpost.co.uk Phone: 0207 404 0107 Department: Location: HQ Comment: My Links ...

Name: Dot Fingerpost Login Name: DotFingerpost Email: dot #64;fingerpost.co.uk Phone: Department: Location: LondonOffice Comment: ...

Election night FingerPost election support: election night2.jpg:

There is a list of all fip header field conventions at http://www.fingerpost.co.uk/info/fiphdr.html

Example of Goalpost Test NOTE: A backslash then octal number may be used for any special characters, such as fractions or accents. See ipsetter for more details on ...

ipsetter Click Ipsetter for complete program documentation, including markup language. Error message in trace saying zero character width: If every character blows ...

FAQ ipsetter IPXCHG FAQs Click ipxchg here for complete documentation, including details of flags, saves, stripping, etc... SC:, DC:, no, yes and CX: Passing through ...

FIP FAQs See also Copy Flow examples NT4/Windows 2000 Why can't my programs find their parameter files ? They seem to be named correctly. Why don't my program ...

The most arcane question ever .... TheMostArcaneRAQ Rarely Asked Questions FIP on Windows NT FiponNT Hints/Tips on a Windows NT installation Rarely Asked Questions ...

See .FileAttachment

FIngerpost is a great company http://www.fingerpost.co.uk

What is a FingerPost? Here are some links to pictures of FingerPosts Milestone Society yes there really is one dedicated to the preservation of milestones ...

Accessing the Fip Header an overview There are two main ways in which the data in the fip header is used: 1) A program acting on a file may be expecting certain ...

Fip Header field definitions Also see basic fip header description AboutFipHdr and the far more detailed Training Data File Structure

Fip Managers Guide FingerPost FIP Managers Guide This Guide is copyright FingerPost Ltd. orig : lt 1st Jul 1996 This version : lt 28th feb 2005 ...

FipSeq header manipulation and system variables. Also see basic fip header description: AboutFipHdr Fip Header overview Standard Header field definitions ...

THE FIP USERS GUIDE Introduction The FingerPost Information Processor (The FIP) is a message processing system. The Information Processor is not only a file server ...

Fip Internet Delivery Module Features and Options Fip Internet Delivery Module Features and Options This document covers the Features and Options available for ...

Original Fip doc on installing on NT this should be updated ..

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Markup for Folios Why ? When MediaPlanner sends its page(s), an Ad list and some information about the page is output to MediaPlanner Paginator. MPPaginator (aka ...

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Simple ftp get to ftp delivery This is a very simple copy flow. Files are simply got from a number of internal servers, and dropped into a folder for further ftp'ing ...

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HTML Characters Reference Special Characters ISO Entities Name Code Number Code Glyph Description lsquo; left single quote rsquo ...

Useful colour list AliceblueF0F8FF AntiquewhiteFAEBD7 Aqua00FFFF Aquamarine7FFFD4 AzureF0FFFF BeigeF5F5DC BisqueFFE4C4 Black000000 BlanchedalmondFFEBCD Blue0000FF ...

How to insert Commas into a number using a partial This uses a partial to split of the pence/cents/post decimal points value, and then a reverse partial to split the ...

Ipremsvr questions What do I do after a sequence number failure ? Very occasionally ipremsvr can have file sequencing problems, and lose track of what has been delivered ...

IPTC International Press Telecommunications Committee: http://www.iptc.org A standards comittee that is working on: IPTC 7901. Fielded text format for news articles ...

Installing Fip Admin using Apache and Perl version 000 18jun98 chris Installation Notes and Other Points Permissions Apache conf file httpd.conf sets the GROUP for ...

Notes and Comments To reinvoke your system file after making a change to /fip/tablses/sys do a "k all" at the ip prompt.

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Iptimer file client:zapclient url:172.XX.160.XX display: type:f template:genericgetandzap match: fiphdr:#QR:Midlands#QS:Birmingham ignore:/BIRMINGHAM/OUTPUT/EVOUCHER ...

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Notes and Comments an underrated jewel of a program! 5 stars and 2 thumbs up!! AndrewGuest 25 Jan 2005

Notes and Comments Is it possible to process one file containing several wire articles each formatted as iptc article? TWikiGuest 25 May 2005 Yes you can and ...

Notes and Comments Ipdump is very useful whilst setting up a new wire, as it allows you to capture the raw incoming feed with all control characters etc. basic ...

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Notes and Comments It first uses a selection table to decide what the job really is. As the listis top down, only the first valid selection is processed . Appears ...

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Links example copy flows ... Using Iptimer to trigger ftp gets Simple copy flow Getting files by ftp and sending them straight on by ftp Notes and Comments ...

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IPREMADM Notes IPREMADM questions

IPREMSVR Notes IPREMSVR questions

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Ipsetter comment ipsetter is a super program output shares pages and race form with it. Notes and Comments There are ipsetter FAQs here. Also goalpost ...

IPSMTP Links Smtpwire can be used to replace sendmail for receiving SMTP mail Examples How to generate emails with attachments or html emails ...

Attachments outbound There are several different ways to add attachments. You need to be careful to specify your mime types sensibly, so that the receiving system ...

IPSOAP Notes IPSOAP questions

Notes and Comments How does ipspool cope with subdirectories in the spooler queue ? A simple 'ipspool' syntax looks like this: ipspool i abc o 123 This moves ...

Links example copy flows ... Using iptimer to trigger ftp gets ... Using Iptimer to trigger ftp gets Notes and Comments Please leave your name and a contact ...

Using iptimer to get files by ftp. This is a slightly more complex copy flow than ftp2ftp,for getting files from a number of sites via ftp and delivering them to an ...

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Notes and comments It is increasingly common to be unable to RCP between machines: so on a secure system with SCP enabled, use SCP instead .... set an environment ...

Notes and Comments Please leave your name and a contact email address ..... ipw4 is usually used in conjunction with a series of scripts that make up a web interface ...

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Notes and Comments This document contains any discussion to do with ipxchg ... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OgtchDPwfi8ojdU7KClRLOpqXoIBOJmBy30XlXtfLAc/edit ...

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http://www.fingerpost.co.uk/gifs/linuxpenguin.gif http://www.fingerpost.co.uk/gifs/linuxpenguin.gif http://www.fingerpost.co.uk/gifs/linuxpenguin.gif http://www.fingerpost ...

Here would stand the information about the London office: Address: Phone: Fax: List of employees at LondonOffice. Related topic: OfficeLocations,

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Name: Lucy Taylor Login Name: Lucy Email: lucy #64;fingerpost.co.uk Phone: 0207 404 0107 Department: Location: LondonOffice Comment ...

Fip now runs on MacOSX and seems pretty nice!

Maintenance FIP (FingerPost Information Processor) maintenance is normally controlled by a shell script called ‘zapfiplog’ which can be found in the directory /fip ...

MediaPlanner Paginator Introduction This explains the output from MediaPlanner to a RIP using the Fip PostScript Paginator. Contacts FingerPost 020 7404 0107 After ...

Lovely database ... http://www.mysql.com

NT error Numbers How to find out the meaning of an error number on NT/Windows2000. In a terminal/cmd window type NET HELPMSG your error number so NET HELPMSG 13 gives ...

A newline is a Unix end of line character and is represented by an octal 12. In fip tables it can be represented as a \n or a \012. In dataformatting it is often ...

Basic Training Course Table of contents Background Directory Structure Data File Structure Header Manipulation overview System variables ...

IPTC driven format for delivery of news and pictures. http://www.newsml.org

Nobody Group Set GROUP Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE TWikiAdminGroup Used to prevent dangerous actions e.g. renaming .TWikiPreferences put NobodyGroup as ...

Introduction Base module Data formatting PostScript pagination Mailbox Syndication Internet Delivery Module Product Overview Base Module ...

Introduction Base module Data formatting PostScript pagination Mailbox Syndication Internet Delivery Module The Data formatting module ...

Introduction Base module Data formatting PostScript pagination Mailbox Syndication Internet Delivery Module The FingerPost Internet Delivery ...

Introduction Base module Data formatting PostScript pagination Mailbox Syndication Internet Delivery Module Mailbox Mailbox overview The ...

Introduction Base module Data formatting PostScript pagination Mailbox Syndication Internet Delivery Module

Support and Maintenance Services General The FingerPost Co Ltd provides support services from its main London office. These services are available on all FingerPost ...

Introduction Base module Data formatting PostScript pagination Mailbox Syndication Internet Delivery Module Syndication Module Syndication ...

The OfficeLocations topic has a list of all your offices. SanJoseOffice LondonOffice TokyoOffice (This is an example of corporate intranet use and is for ...

Other Copy Flows WireFormat files by FTP ? It is becoming common to either fetch files by ftp that are in a standard wire format (IPTC / ANPA / IIM etc) or have ...

Name: Peter Thoeny Email: Peter #64;Thoeny.com Comment: Peter is the author of TWiki and therefore a TWiki:Codev/CoreTeam member. See home page at TWiki ...

Platforms Supported by FingerPost We support the FingerPost Information processor on Sun Solaris Windows NT / 2000 /2003 IBM AIX Red Hat Linux ...

PostScript is Adobe's Page Definition language. A full guide's to the language can be found at: http://www.adobe.com. Ipsetter can be used to generate PostScript ...

FingerPost Pre installation Check List Pre installation Check List for Fip 1.0 Overview This document attempts to list some of the issues that occur before and during ...

Introduction Base module Data formatting PostScript pagination Mailbox Syndication Internet Delivery Module FingerPost Information Processor ...

Fip User Interface ip MUI The Main User Interface (or MisUser Interface) ipnt MUI The Main User Interface (or MisUser Interface) for NT ...

Useful Quark Xpress Information Tags list QuarkTagsList: a rough list of common tags used: it is slightly out of date.... Hyphens and spaces How to force non ...

Xpress tags list ... This is a list of tags used for importing files into QuarkXpress. There is an official PDF on lala in pages/specs called XPressTagsList.pdf Requires ...

Raw FTP commands These commands are useful when you need to send something in the ftpafter/ftpbefore syntax. For instance, although you might manually FTP by hand ...

Re building a FingerPost system It is important that your FIP systems are identical. Generally as long as the systems have been set up correctly and that good practices ...

Here would stand the information about the San Jose office: Address: Phone: Fax: List of employees at SanJoseOffice. Related topic: OfficeLocations ...

SFFCHECK Notes SFFCHECK questions

That Really is three fs ...

SFFMD5 Notes SFFMD5 questions

Silly Stuff An experiment in podcasting We think that Podcasting may find Chris in his element. no. 1 DotFingerPost 15 Jan 2006 Notes and Comments Please leave ...

What is a SpiderPort A terminal server made by a company called SPider, available as 10 port or 18 port servers, used by fip as an easy way to get several manageable ...

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System variables an overview In the same way that Fip header fields are accessible by certain parameter files, there are a number of Fip system variables that can ...

Basic Setup Timer file entry : (/fip/tables/setup/TIMER.EVOUCHERS) client:basildon url:10.72.130.7 display: type:f template:genericgetandzap match: .pdf fiphdr:#QR ...

This is really a TM Specific Copy Flow TM iptimer to PT copy flow. This was initially a very straightforward project. Files were to be fetched from a number fo ...

TWiki Administrator Group Set GROUP DotFingerPost Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE TWikiAdminGroup (Setup Note: (a) Verify that user authentication is working, ...

Set GROUP , Main.Others... Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE Related topics: , TWikiGroups, .TWikiAccessControl

These groups can be used to define fine grained .TWikiAccessControl in TWiki: New Group: Note: A group topic name ...

TWiki Non Administrator Group Set GROUP DotFingerPost Set GROUP TWikiGuest (Setup Note: (a) Verify that user authentication is working, (b) set the ...

The site level preferences are located in .TWikiPreferences PeterThoeny 20 Dec 2003

A B C D DotFingerPost DotFingerPost 21 Jan 2005 E F ...

See .TWikiVariables

What is a terminal server A special purpose computer that has places to plug in many modems on one side, and a connection to a LAN or host machine on the other side ...

http://www.TextPad.com A nice programmers editor which can be readily customised with tools for doing things like sql editing, filing copy back into fip etc. TextPad ...

Why are my files going to a queue called AtexXX when .... DotFingerPost 27 Apr 2005 Notes and Comments TWikiGuest 30 Dec 2005

TWiki.FipDoc Web: : List of users of this TWiki web. TWikiGroups: List of groups. TWiki. Web: .WelcomeGuest: Look here first to get you rolling ...

Here would stand the information about the Tokyo office: Address: Phone: Fax: List of employees at TokyoOffice. Related topic: OfficeLocations,

Company Background FingerPost is a small software company based in London, England. The company has been in business since 1990 and currently has four members of staff ...

Data File structure A FIP (FingerPost Information Processor) data file typically contains a FIP header at the top of the file, followed by the content of the story ...

Input programs using wire as an example. Introduction The wire program is used in this course as a way of describing all the major input programs. Each program works ...

In ipftp or any other of the output programs, you can optionally keep a log file. It is a good idea to make the name of the log file variable, by adding a date to ...

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W4 a web based wire browser W4 is the FingerPost web based wire browser and administration tool leveraging the wire management and text control strengths of the fip ...

Upgrade W4 this version: 001 19Oct2009 Contents 0. Overview Upgrade FingerPost w4 cgis and templates Prerequisites /fip/bin/ipw4, version 07z24 /fip/bin ...

Fip Internet Delivery Module Features and Options This document covers the Features and Options available for clients receiving data from the Fip Internet Delivery ...

FingerPost Documentation This is an attempt at implementing a simple web based collaboration platform for all our documentation and related Fip information. Do note ...

See also the faster WebTopicList

Home FipDoc Documentation Topic list %INCLUDE{"%IF{"context can login" then ".WebLeftBarLogin" %else ""}% ...

This is a subscription service to be automatically notified by e mail when topics change in this FipDoc web. This is a convenient service, so you do not have to ...

FipDoc Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the FipDoc web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in ., and can be ...

TWiki's FipDoc web /view/FipDoc The web for users, groups and offices. TWiki is a Web Based Collaboration Platform for the Corporate World.

Statistics for FipDoc Web Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save and ...

Notes on the Fip Web Delivery Module 1. Introduction What is FingerPost Web Delivery Module 2. Components Features Elements ipremdata ipremsvr fipremote ...

See also the verbose WebIndex.

Links and Cross references Also see Iptimer as a mechanism for launching webwire Notes and Comments

 What do our customers use Fip for ? Let us know what you use Fip for use the comment box at the bottom of this page to add to the page. Straight forward wire ...

FingerPost Software Users Below is a selection of clients who use FingerPost software. Where the client has a web site we have put a link to their site just click ...

Why can't my programs find their parameter files ? They seem to be named correctly. Check case ... parameter files should always be upper case on Unix, Linux, AIX ...

Windows things ... On NT/Windows 2000 systems all your program switches parameters need to be close up to the switch. So whereas on Unix this will work : ipspool ...

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Wire Format files by FTP ? It is becoming common to either fetch files by ftp that are in a standard wire format (IPTC / ANPA / IIM etc) or have them delivered to ...

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