Thanks for the update Sue. I'm not sure how we would find out this information without your posting it here.
I personally really appreciate you continuing to create the PDF versions of the manuals. But there are a couple of things that would make them a lot easier to use. 1) Could you please use the full title names (minus "/" and ":" characters) for the file names? The 8.3 file names (actually, they aren't all 8-character anymore) are not very usable. If we download the HLASM and MFA zip files, we get: asmg1023.pdf asmi1023.pdf asmp1023.pdf asmr1023.pdf asmtic23.pdf asmtis23.pdf asmtiu23.pdf asmtug23.pdf azfi100_v1r3.pdf azfli100_v1r3.pdf azfpd130.pdf azfu100_v1r3.pdf I generally use Windows File Explorer to find a manual I've downloaded. But to be able to find something by the file system name, I have to open each to determine which manual it is, copy the title (and maybe the publication number), close the pdf and then rename it. "asmr1023.pdf" is not meaningful. "SC26-4940-08 HLASM Language Reference.pdf" is. And if the title has a slash, colon, or other invalid character for a file name, I have to remove those. (There might be reasons to replace the spaces with underscores.) It's often easier to copy the pub # and title and use "Save As" so that I can use the full title as a file name. Of course, this breaks any links between manuals. 2) The second thing to please stop dividing the manuals into sections so that the page numbers referenced from the TOC and all other places within the manual are the actual PDF page numbers. PDF doesn't (generally) recognize sections like this, so page numbers cited in the manual are always several pages short of the PDF page number. (Hyperlinks from the TOC are great, but references to page numbers within the text are usually not set up as links.) So, to jump to a page (Ctrl-G in most PDF readers) I usually add at least 10 pages to get close, then scroll to what the book thinks is the right page. For example, in "asmr1023.pdf", if you want to go to page 61, you would actually need to enter "77" because of the reset in the page numbers after the first 16 pages. In John Erhman's wonderful Assembler book there's a 42 page difference, and there are so many references to page numbers in the text that I used a PDF editor to delete everything prior to what it calls page 1 so that I could go directly to the referenced page--at the cost of having a table of contents. Thanks for listening. Wendell Lovewell ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
