Hi Fran,
As the new "supporter" of (most of) the Xephon code, I have
experimented with ways of extracting the machine-readable code from the
PDF format magazine articles. The PDF magazines that we distribute on
www.cbttape.org/xephon have had all the protections removed, so that
anything from the magazine can be copied, etc. Also, the copyright
"note" on the "cover" of the PDF magazines was changed to state that
www.cbttape.org is now the support source for these materials, and all
the former copyright notices are now off.
I can personally probably extract several articles' machine-readable
code, pretty accurately, in about 10 minutes' time, if I get back into
practice, and remember which ASCIIs have to be converted into which
EBCDICs. If you, or anybody else, needs this work done on any
particular articles, please write to me and tell me what you need.
Can't promise to deliver on every request, but I can certainly give it a
shot. To read the magazines, you just need the Adobe PDF reader, which
is a free download from the www.adobe.com site.
Of course, if you need an article in MVS from mid 1986 thru 1996,
almost all of them are already in machine-readable EBCDIC on CBT Tape
File 830 (Updates page, please). Go to www.cbttape.org and click
"Updates". The PDF magazines are from 1998 thru 2005, and they are not
just MVS. If you Google "wayback machine" and get to an early enough
version of the www.xephon.com website, you yourself can extract old
articles by clicking on "3000 articles available for download" where it
says so on the web page.
All the best of everything to you and your family.
Sincerely, Sam Golob
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