On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:03:07 -0700, David Alcock wrote: >Every time a new z/OS operating system level comes along I go >to the IBM library page and download each manual I'm interested >in (i.e. most in the MVS bookshelf) one at a time and give them >somewhat meaningful names like "zos 110 init and tuning ref.pdf" >instead of iea2e291.pdf for example. What do you do? > >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 names. 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?
This has been discussed here several times before. What I do is use the Softcopy Librarian to get the bookshelves and the extended bookshelves that I am interested in. Then I use the Softcopy Reader to find the book (either PDF or boo) that I want to read. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
