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There was a brief time when IBM provided search indices for their PDF
manuals. It was WONDERFUL - index covered a whole library. There is a
version of Acrobat that had a search feature (version 4, anyway). So why'd
IBM stop?

At 12:02 PM 3/20/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Jeff to Jeff ... to add my voice to the protest ...
>
>InfoCenter looks great to those mis-fortunates who have to use the flipping
>thing.
>Much as the IBM Library Reader is a tad old-fashioned in design by modern
>standards, it knocks the spots off InfoCenter.
>The searching and 'personal bookshelf' features were (are) a pleasure to use
>by comparison to InfoCenter.
>.PDFs are ok, for viewing and printing, but I have yet to be able to search
>a bookshelf of .PDF manuals.
>
>Come on IBM, give us back our .BOO and .BKS files ... P L E A S E.
>
>Jeff Bull
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Crosby [mailto:jlcrosby@dilgardfoods.com]
>Sent: 18 March 2002 21:50
>To: Midrange Mailing List
>Subject: V5R1 Install Changes
>
>
>In the mists of my memory, I think someone has complained about this
>before, but here goes.
>
>MODES(*RANT *VENT)
>
>Does anyone know why IBM removed Chapter 3 ("Preparing to Install
>Software") from SC41-5120 Software Installation and put in in the
>Infocenter?  In prior versions all that info was contained in 1
>document, the Software Installation manual, where it belonged.  This put
>everything in one manual for installing a new release.
>
>Now, instead I have to get a bunch of HTML from the Infocenter.  And it
>isn't contained in one organized document, I had to press PRINT and BACK
>umpteen gazillion times.  If it's going to be in the Infocenter, at
>least make it printable as a PDF or something.
>
>But why remove it from the manual in the first place?  It seems so
>ludicrous to me that I must be missing something obvious to everyone
>else.  Either that or IBM is purposely trying to make the iSeries so
>hard that it takes IBM Global Services to fix everything after you're
>done.  Sheesh, IBM doesn't need competition to kill the iSeries, they'll
>do it themselves.  The lab people need to get out into the real world
>and breathe some clear air for awhile.
>
>MODES(*CLEARALL)
>
>I feel better now. <g>
>
>--
>Jeff Crosby
>Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
>P.O. Box 13369
>Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
>260-422-7531
>
>The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily
>the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.
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