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It's not quite that bad - on the home page is the link for IBM i PDF manuals - click on that to see a list - click on one of those - you'll get a page with a link you CAN right-click and save from - no need to display the thing.

So there is no place for current manuals - there is the IBM Library for old stuff that is still around - lots of the BOOKREADER stuff there, and in PDF for some.

So no need to actually open the PDF - at least not all the time - you DID say "lot of times", right, Kendall? :D

HTH
Vern

On 2/25/2015 4:52 PM, Kendall Kinnear wrote:
IBM doesn't create PDFs of most of the manuals any more that I know of. You can go into each topic on KnowledgeCenter and usually get a PDF of the web pages. That's about the best you can get these days. For the actual PDFs that are built, a lot of times you actually have to open the PDF and save it due to the way IBM's web pages redirect.

That's the best I've figured out. I just keep the KnowledgeCenter bookmarked on my iPad and bring up what I need there.

Respectfully,
Kendall Kinnear
System Analyst
Standard Motor Products, Inc.
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 4:46 PM
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Subject: Re: FTP site for IBM i manuals?

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:51 PM, John McKay <jmckay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_71/welcome.htm
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It looks like that's where Dan already was. What he wants to know is whether there is some *other* place, where he actually download PDFs directly, rather than having to open them in his browser first.

On 25/02/2015 21:12, Dan wrote:
Is anyone aware of an FTP site for i manuals?
I don't know of any.

But I kind of defer the pain of the downloads: I typically don't download a PDF until I need it, and I certainly don't need bunches of them at once.

Also, is v6r1 the last release for which the CL commands manuals were
created? I'd like to get those, but IBM's Knowledge Center has
broken links for those.
It may well be. As much as I love manuals in general, I have to say I've mostly stopped using them for CL. I rely on the Web if I need to look something up that's not in the system help. (However, I still like and use the RPG manuals.)

John Y.
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