RE: Documentation: a rant and a cry for help -- MIDRANGE-L

George,

Good to hear from you.  How's the gang at Weyerhauser?  Say Hello to all for
me.

You can get a number of the books PDF style via the web at 

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/online/v4r4eng.htm

or which ever version you need.

I've downloaded a number of these to one of our servers for easy access.
And of course if you have Adobe Acrobat, or similar, you can build your own
bookcase/bookshelf type of menu.

Regards,
Jon A. Erickson (former contractor)
Sr. Programmer Analyst
800.COM Inc.
1516 NW Thurman St
Portland, OR  97209-2517

Direct: 503.944.3613
Fax: 503.944.3690
Web: http://800.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Lemen, George (Contractor) [mailto:george.lemen@weyerhaeuser.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 9:47 AM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Documentation: a rant and a cry for help


Martin --
 I noted that the INFOSEEKER was gone too. I found it in the "memo to users"
that came with our software box.

 I hope the following helps you (at least short term):

 I found that the second CD in the "AS/400 Information Center" CD set is
V4R4 "softcopy library". I've been able to read (most) of the books with the
copy of the PC "IBM Library Reader for Windows" (aka Bookmanager) I have
installed on my PC. I say "most" because I found at least one book (about
all the new stuff in V4R4) that fails to open with the message "cannot be
read with this version of the library reader". But most of the books I use
work with the back level reader (which I got with the softcopy library for
OS/400 V3R2....)

 On the "softcopy" CD there are the usual directories for "books" and
"shelves" that the Bookmanager uses. There is also a directory call
"ilrwin". This has an "install" program that Win '95 (no we haven't moved to
Win '98 or Win 2000 yet) recognizes as an installation program. Looks like
the executables are there in compressed form. (There also appear to be
directories with the PC DOS only and OS/2 versions of the program).

I'll close with a question that only IBM can answer: Any thought to
distribution the books using Adobe Acrobat? The viewer can be distributed at
no charge. At the IBM AS/400 Technical conference ALL the presentations were
distributed in Acrobat format with a reader included to boot! IBM AS/400's
web site (and the book library) use Acrobat as well. This works VERY nicely.
Since IBM has removed INFOSEEKER assuming that we all have PC's -- why not
drop the expense of maintaining bookmanager?  (OK OK I'll get off my
soapbox!)

George Lemen

> ----------
> From:         McCallion, Martin[SMTP:MccalliM@Midas-Kapiti.com]
> Reply To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Sent:         Wednesday, February 16, 2000 7:09 AM
> To:   'midrange-l@midrange.com'
> Subject:      Documentation: a rant and a cry for help
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> We recently upgraded a machine t V4R4, and I've been looking at getting
> the documentation installed.  Now, I knew that some of the docs had been
> moved to the "Infocenter" and had to be viewed in a browser; I can cope
> with that.  The rest are still in BookMangler format, or whatever it's
> called.  I know this was discussed at some length here in the past.
> 
> But as far as I know, one additional little feature never came up.
> 
> Before I started I wanted to check the existing books, so I typed
> STRINFSKR.
> 
> If you're on V4R4 and haven't tried it, try it now; go on.
> 
> What you get is message CPFA27F.....  
(( Rest of original snipped))
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