IBM did produce a OS/2 version of Bookmanager/BUILD. I won a copy of it at a SHARE trade show. It was really, really slow, but it would take my Bookie input and produce useful output. It never got much love from IBM, though -- I think they did it because the IRS wanted a desktop version. It never got the PostScript support, so you had to deal with HP Laserjet or AFP output.. *sigh*. It was withdrawn from marketing at least a decade ago.
I wonder if the CD is still readable. I'll see if I can find it. FWIW, I think Waterloo still distributes the PC version of Waterloo SCRIPT. Their GML implementation was reasonably compatible with the DCF one, although Bookie tags never worked properly. I REALLY wish IBM would release Bookie into the public domain. DocBook frankly SUCKS, and a well-documented publically available set of markup tags created by people who write books for a living would be an enormous improvement... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
