David Alcock wrote: > I just tried out using the DownloadThemAll Firefox add-on and you > can easily get all manuals with the cryptic 8.3 filenames. I found > a PDF library for Python that is easy enough to use to display the > titles by the file name. See this web page I created: > > http://www.planetmvs.com/mvsintosh/IBM_Manuals/index.html > > I'm probably missing a lot easier way of doing things. I started > searching for some type of freeware that displays PDF titles in a > directory but have been unlucky so far. Any suggestions?
There's a nifty option in DTA that will do that for you. Change the renaming mask from *name*.*ext* to *text* *name*.*ext* and DTA will put the link description in front of the unhelpful filename. In the zOS Internet Library, the descriptions are the text in of the link. For example, "iea2u100.pdf" becomes "z/OS V1R9.0 MVS Capacity Provisioning User's Guide iea2u100.pdf". The only problem with that is it breaks the embedded PDF links. That's fixable on a unix system with symlinks. You might be able to fix it on a Windows system with a NTFS link helper utility, but I haven't tried. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
