Great tip!
Thanks, Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "John P Kalinich" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 5:44:35 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: Downloading IBM manuals For a given folder, select VIEW/CHOOSE DETAILS... from the toolbar and check the TITLE box. Regards, John K IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 04/15/2009 07:37:25 AM: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
