I have never seen a PoOP in Bookmanager format. I would submit it as an exception (proving the rule:) PDF has it's uses. Printing and reading larger sections or all of a book. It is better than it used to be at searching. It's major (and with increasing band width a lesser concern) is the all or nothing aspect.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Steve Thompson > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 5:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: publibz->infocenter->knowledgecenter > > On 12/24/2014 03:35 AM, Gibney, Dave wrote: > > This represents the first two comments I've seen claiming the demise > of Bookmanager to be a good thing. Versus some rather large number of > us who are resigned to a bad decision on the part of IBM. > > > <SNIPPAGE> > > Unless I've gotten things very confused over the years, when the > Principles manual was put into the BookMangler format, the charts were > mostly unreadable. > > The DAT chart was seriously mangled. The ART chart was unintelligible - > - at least to me. [Dynamic Address Translation, Access Register > Translation] > > And, at that time, and in those days, I was regularly reading the PoOP, > because of the changes caused by ESA. > > I have preferred the PDF version of manuals ever since. > > Regards, > Steve Thompson > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
