On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 10:17:52 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >The Read LINK ON THAT PAGE, >http://publibfp.dhe.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/books/cn7p4000, gives me >Internal Server Error > Yup. Rotten link. Apparently it was IBM's intention to show the document as HTML, whether cached or generated dynamically. It should be fixed. Cf. zMan's remarks.
________________________________________ From: Joe Monk Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2020 4:48 AM https://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US&FNC=SRX&PBL=GA23-0059 ________________________________________ On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:22:31 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: > >... There are generally accepted >and approved ways to cite the IBM publication number (and section and/or >page number reference, for example) then include a link to the site to >obtain that publication. >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources > > ... you can >download that publication in BookManager format. In a Wikipedia-style >citation you would likely note that detail, assuming you test it. ("IBM >BookManager electronic publication format, retrieved and viewed with IBM >Softcopy Reader on date-X.") BookManager has a Wikipedia entry available >for linking here: >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRIPT_(markup)#Bookmanager > >And IBM Softcopy Reader has an external link here: >http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=4&uid=swg27018849 > Sheesh! So the reader following the citation is expected to download the .BOO, then install Softcopy Reader (price?) and render the document. This is reminiscent of the opening of HG2G -- the information is available; you must only care to pursue it. There are several popular formats for rendering documents: HTML, PDF, ODF, (dare I mention DOCX or nroff?) IMHO, Bookie doesn't make the top ten. For example, how might I view the document mentioned on my Raspberry Pi? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
