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2023-12-14 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 at 21:18, brian--- via cctalk wrote: > > > > > 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 Well spotted. If I was uncle

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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