On 3 January 2012 08:44, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]> wrote: > In <[email protected]>, on 01/03/2012 > at 05:39 AM, Jan MOEYERSONS <[email protected]> said: > >>I think you can. Just install the old, but still faithfull Library Reader for >>Windows > > What if you don't run windoze? > >>(IMHO it still is better than the Java stuff they replaced it with) > > But less portable.
Not really. IBM's Java reader has only the GUI in Java, while the code that processes the .boo files is platform specific JNI stuff, presumably C or C++. So you get the worst of both worlds - no portability, and a bad GUI. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
