On 6 December 2012 17:59, McKown, John <[email protected]> wrote:
> I despise InfoCenter. Try here: > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves for BookManager > + PDF. I use either Hear, hear! What I really hate about it is that you can't tell whether a section is empty or that it is downloading the contents and eventually will appear. It also suffers from the misconception that there is useful content in each intermediate node of the tree. Too often I find myself looking at some bogus paragraph and missing the fact that there are sections underneath that have what I was looking for. I have a few old Bookmanager format books that I sometimes need. I just tried the Java applet that IBM has to view books on your workstation (aka Softcopy Reader). It's a 80 MB download but has the look and feel of of BookManager Read on OS/2 many years ago. A previous version was probably worse than InfoCenter, but v4 appears reasonable (but if it could, I'd print the entire book into a PDF and use that). I still remember when I fell in love with Library Reader/DOS. It was a huge boost in productivity to have all books handy (also at home) and not having to borrow a copy from a senior colleage (and promise to return it before sunset). Since it's Friday, I'm installing Win98 in VirtualBox now to see whether it really was as good as I remember. Somehow time affects how you remember things... Rob I still have a
