The IBM Softcopy Librarian does a nice job of downloading "bookshelves" to a directory on my hard drive and doing the compares to tell me when there is an updated book or bookshelf... almost all shelves are available in .boo or .pdf
I tend to download the PDF's - then when viewing my c:\books directory in windows explorer if you don't see the "human" readable title just right click on the "Name" column and select "Title" this will add a column with the "human" readable title extracted from the windows extended file properties... no need to rename or be inconsistent. OTOH - if you like the .boo files they do not have the "title" metadata supplied, maybe IBM could fix that. But if your using .boo files your probably also using the softcopy reader/Shelf Organizer which will also show you the real title. Eric Spencer Sr.Software Developer p: 512.241.7313 | m: 512.470.9807 | f: 512.343.9538 [email protected] What is zPrime? Find out at www.zprime.com or just ask us! > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Brian Nielsen > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Replicating z/VM documentation > > I have a couple quick and dirty KEDIT macros that I run against the HTML > index page to build COPY commands that will copy the cryptic file name > from the CD to another drive and name it as the manual number and title > (taking care of special characters in the process). > > Brian Nielsen > > > On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:21:52 -0600, Scott Rohling > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >As I am often in locations where internet access is either not possible > or > >not allowed, I really like to keep the official z/VM documentation on my > >laptop. I know there are web pages with all the PDF files, etc.. But > I > >have issues using them: > > > >- The PDF files are named with the manual number, rather than a human > >readable title. I usually end up renaming them when I download (and am > >often inconsistent). > >- I'm never sure I have the 'latest and greatest' > >- The process is entirely manual > > > >So I'm wondering what other people do to keep local copies.. It would > be > >nifty to have something that checked the web pages for newer copies of > the > >pdf files and did 'wget' or something on them - and was smart enough to > suck > >the title out of the web page as well and use it to name the file > locally. > >But - maybe there are other solutions I'm not aware of? > > > >Anybody have a nice way to deal with 'replicating' the z/VM > documentation? > >(if your a Notes user, you'll understand the 2nd verb) > > > >p.s. Hmmm.. I bet I can use wget with the right incantation and get the > >whole website to my laptop along with PDFs.. but not sure it handles > >checking for changes? > > > >Scott > >
