Can you explain this a little more? I am feeling especially dense today. :)
Don Johnson CA Sr. Support Engineer This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and contain information that may be privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please delete this e-mail and any files transmitted with it and notify the sender immediately. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 8:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Downloading IBM manuals In Windows Explorer I add 'Title' to the Explorer windows property. Every book I've downloaded had the correct Title already defined. On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Tom Marchant <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
