Unlike many of you, I keep copies, as PDFs, of only the manuals I access very frequently. They are now so readily available and so easy to download that I do not keep, for example IMS manuals, which I look at only infrequently.
Others will of course have different usage/reference patterns. I also understand that bookshelves are convenient, but one sometimes pays a high price for this convenience. Their component manuals are often updated on different schedules, and these changes in atomic-manual availabilities are not always reflected at all promptly in the bookshelves that contain them. For anything critical one must anyway be sure that one is consulting the most current version of a manual [or its repackaged replacement in some other manual], and it is really quite convenient to just download it after ascertaining its publication number. Á chacun son goût. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
