V V2/s/ Anthony L. Zak -------- Original message ,--------From: Bernd Oppolzer <[email protected]> Date: 3/20/23 12:40 (GMT-05:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] BookManager I would like to thank all who responded and tellz you about the solution we found.Kz[> g zd;&-÷3@^' First of all, with some support from somewhere, we managed to re-install the BookManager softwareon the z/OS 2.5 system - unsupported / as-is. This, at least, allows us to read the books temporarilyand to start the conversion from here.Then I copied the needed books (some hundred) to Bookmaster GML format, which can be donefrom inside READ/MVS. The MVS (or z/OS) version converts complete books to Bookmaster GML,not only single paragraphs. The Bookmaster files (which are textfiles in the end) then were movedto a PC (using text FTP).Then I used B2H (the Windows variant) to create HTML from the Bookmaster files. I changed theB2H REXX a little bit, so that all texts are enclosed in <PRE> tags; this way the line breaks etc.from the original documents are preserved.Task completed :-)Some additional remarks:the internal layout of the .BOO files is not usable and very difficult; 4096 byte segments, word fragmentsin EBCDIC, maybe some sort of linked list or tree structure. I spent some time trying to understand this,but no success.I also tried to find the Bookmaster sources - as suggested by some posters - at my customer's sitefor the books, which were present in the "production" bookshelves, but also no success;the sources were partially lost and the people responsible for the books have retired.So it was best to retrieve the Bookmaster sources from the books directly.Kind regardsBerndAm 28.02.2023 um 18:59 schrieb Bernd Oppolzer:> What is the preferred way to convert BookMgr books to PDF?>> My customer has some home-written BookMgr books, which they cannot access> after the z/OS migration (BookMgr support was dropped with z/OS 2.4).>> We managed to transfer the books to Windows (and OS/2, BTW), where we can> at least look at the books. Now I would like to convert the books to > PDFs.> But the free Softcopy Reader refuses to print more than one (selected) > topicc1+○xcb v> or ranges of topics; if you try to do this using the print menu > (selected or range),> the output is always empty.>> Is this a bug - or: is printing larger portions of text not allowed in > the free version?> What are the options?>> The eMail address [email protected], which is mentioned in the > Softcopy Reader> help texts, doesn't exist any more (BTW: the Softcopy Reader is a 2012 > edition;> this seems to be the last one available).>> Is there a documented API to read the books using a C or REXX program> and build the PDFs this way? Or build HTML from the books?>> Thanks for all suggestions,> kind regards>> Bernd>>>----------------------------------------------------------------------For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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