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That doesn't necessarily make them DEAD. And with B2H there's a certain
element of continued vitality. Slight, mind you. :-(
Martin (who uses Bookie and B2H every day)
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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 03/04/2008
at 06:26 PM, Roger Bolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Would you guys stop talking about DCF (Document Composition Facility,
>5748-XX9) a.k.a. Script in the past tense? It is still available for
>z/OS, z/VM, and z/VSE.
Yes, but aren't DCF, BookMaster and
Roger Bolan wrote:
Some Information Development groups don't even produce BookManager format
output but produce some books in PDF format only now.
Eclipse-based Infocenters are the "in thing" now. It's all XML based.
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Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
5200 W Century Blvd,
I don't know for sure about that book, but yes, a lot (if not all) of the
Information Developers I know now use workstation based tools instead of
BookMaster and DCF.
Some Information Development groups don't even produce BookManager format
output but produce some books in PDF format only now
In a message dated 3/7/2008 12:25:50 P.M. Central Standard Time,
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being enabled. This feature was available from OS/390 1.2 (or 1.3 maybe)
till OS/390 2.10. The residual effect is that there is still Enablement
checking which must now be used on DCF, but you no l
I think you're thinking of the OS/390 Softcopy Print feature.
While BookManager books can be built from DCF source books, there are
other flavors of BookManager Build that I think can build from other
types of source material.
The OS/390 Softcopy Print feature, on the other hand, was for pri
In a message dated 3/5/2008 1:17:11 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
workstation products. I don't think the details are confidential, but I
don't know them beyond what I just said. I briefly looked into using
the "workbench" some time ago.
>>
But isn't the z/OS Bo
Edward Jaffe wrote:
What software do they use?
It's a mixture of internal tools and some commercially-available SGML
workstation products. I don't think the details are confidential, but I
don't know them beyond what I just said. I briefly looked into using
the "workbench" some time ago.
Alan Altmark wrote:
I'm not sure why you're tying book format to DCF. DCF is rarely used with
System z publications, as book maintenence and formatting were moved to
workstations years ago. The tools can produce a variety of output formats,
depending on the requirement.
What software do
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 21:26:25 -0600, Paul Gilmartin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alas, whenever I search for a z/Series PoOP online in HTML/Book format
>as opposed to PDF, I conclude that some department within IBM thinks
>of DCF only in the past tense. Has PoOP authoring abandoned DCF for
>a compet
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:26:32 -0700, Roger Bolan wrote:
>Would you guys stop talking about DCF (Document Composition Facility,
>5748-XX9) a.k.a. Script in the past tense? It is still available for
>z/OS, z/VM, and z/VSE.
> http://www.infoprintsolutionscompany.com/internet/wwsites.nsf/vwwebpublishe
Would you guys stop talking about DCF (Document Composition Facility,
5748-XX9) a.k.a. Script in the past tense? It is still available for
z/OS, z/VM, and z/VSE.
http://www.infoprintsolutionscompany.com/internet/wwsites.nsf/vwwebpublished/dcfhome_z_us
--Roger
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