Which manual are you referring to (ignoring the heavy sarcasm implying I am a Luddite:-)? I would use an online version of a book with comparable (succinct) coverage! I don't want a shelf of dead trees but the quick reference has the following TOC:

TCL Commands
TCL Keywords
Sentence Stack Commands
RETRIEVE commands
RETRIEVE keywords
SQL Statements
Responses to REVISE Prompts
Editor Commands
PROVERB Commands
uniVerse Spooler Commands
BASIC Statements, Functions and Operators
RAID Commands
Conversion Codes
@ Variables
BASIC Subroutines
File Types
User Exits
ASCII Equivalents

all in an easy to use, small (7"x5"x.75") form . It is much easier to use than the online set of manuals which have no easy (that I have found) unified search facility. The online manuals are great for those times you want an indepth discussion of a topic, or to first learn a subject, but are abysmal (IMNSHO) as a quick reference for a syntax question or a summary. While it has not been updated in a few versions, the data is sufficient in day to day programming. BTW the current PDF is set up for larger pages (8.5"x11" IIRC) so that ehe Kinko solution is not a particlaraly good one, especially since the PDF contains page images (not text) for some down level version (9.? I believe). That is not particularly conducive to reformatting.

Stuart Boydell wrote:

... If anyone knows of a comparable book (its wire bound,
remember, so you can lay it down to use a keyboard/mouse) for version
10, PLEASE let me know.



To maintain the feel of the original you could take the pdf to your local monastery and have the monks make a fair copy on palimpsest with illuminations and gilt highlighting. But that may take awhile. Alternatively; you could go to Kinko's (tm) and print it on their rainbow coloured endangered trees of the rainforest series paper then have it bound there.




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