IBM did produce a OS/2 version of Bookmanager/BUILD. I won a copy of it at a
SHARE trade show. It was really, really slow, but it would take my Bookie input
and produce useful output. It never got much love from IBM, though -- I think
they did it because the IRS wanted a desktop version. It
dbo...@sinenomine.net (David Boyes) writes:
FWIW, I think Waterloo still distributes the PC version of Waterloo
SCRIPT. Their GML implementation was reasonably compatible with the
DCF one, although Bookie tags never worked properly.
I REALLY wish IBM would release Bookie into the public
On 2013-12-31, at 06:47, David Boyes wrote:
IBM did produce a OS/2 version of Bookmanager/BUILD. ...
That suggests it was written in PL/S. I understand IBM used
PL/S for OS/2 (internally) to produce some products, such as
SuperC for OS/2.
I REALLY wish IBM would release Bookie into the
David Boyes wrote:
I REALLY wish IBM would release Bookie into the public domain. DocBook frankly
SUCKS, and a well-documented publically available set of markup tags created by
people who write books for a living would be an enormous improvement...
I agree 100%. Here's what's weird: tech
