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2023-12-13 Thread brian--- via cctalk
> > Someone in IBM must know, I suppose. More likely, someone in IBM must have known. But I would hazard a guess that almost everyone who had direct internal knowledge of DCF, GML/Bookmaster, and the BOO format has already retired. Charles Goldfarb was born in 1939 brian

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2023-12-13 Thread David Arnold via cctalk
> On 14 Dec 2023, at 08:18, brian--- via cctalk wrote: -8<—- > I've done a lot of work converting technical documentation archives from > DCF and Bookmaster to Word and XML, but always worked from source, never > .BOO. A quick search suggests both Bookmaster and DCF use a library called GDDM

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2023-12-13 Thread brian--- via cctalk
> > The one I haven't found yet is: f29bdg00.boo The Google suggests: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Common_User_Access which has working links to f29al000.boo and f29bdg00.boo on IBM servers I've done a lot of work converting technical documentation archives from DCF and Bookmaster to Word and

[cctalk] Re: 6800 fig-FORTH?

2023-12-13 Thread Doug Jackson via cctalk
Hi Stephen, Sorry to use your Fig Forth thread - I too have a Corsham 6809 system, with a SD card - I can not for the life of me figure out what files / how to put stuff onto the SD card to boot - either Basic or Flex/09. If you had success down the Fig route that would also be great - but do

[cctalk] Re: IBM .BOO format

2023-12-13 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 at 22:06, David Schmidt via cctalk wrote: > > I ran the Windows reader over the f29al000.boo file, and the results weren't > as good as the ones that IBM printed out in 1992 as available on the Internet > Archive; the main problems I can see is the lack of font support