As you mentioned dead trees, my first large-sale publication (which I turned into a Redbook in 1992 and updated in 1997) was called DEADTREE SCRIPT/LIST3820 for quite a few years. :-)
(I’m still typecast as “Batch Performance” in the eyes of some people.) :-) Cheers, Martin Sent from my iPad > On 4 Mar 2019, at 21:35, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > > Well, I certainly started with dead trees, and I occasionally have cause to use them, but generally I am more production with a machine readable version (I want Bookie back!) > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mason.gmu.edu_-7Esmetz3&d=DwIFAw&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=BsPGKdq7-Vl8MW2-WOWZjlZ0NwmcFSpQCLphNznBSDQ&m=xpGIqqWsJkKhndS1klPpLI1cfJ0QERU1re96ore_h_0&s=rGSCbQKyze8jTvWjtnioHloHqV63fxoFma4W0teDVC4&e= > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Andrew Rowley <and...@blackhillsoftware.com> > Sent: Friday, March 1, 2019 6:10 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: New look and linking for V2.3 product documentation PDFs > >> On 2/03/2019 4:55 am, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> I can see making copies for laptops off of the Internet, but dead tree? I wish I didn't believe you. >> > You can tell the people who learned from printed manuals from those who > use only softcopy ones - the people who learned from softcopy ask "How > do I do..." and the people who learned from hardcopy answer them. > (Mostly joking!) > > I suspect most of us on this list are old enough to have started in > mainframe with hardcopy manuals. We may not appreciate how difficult it > is to learn z/OS without them. > > When learning a complex new concept, a hardcopy manual where you can > stick a finger in a page, flip backwards, view multiple pages at once, > refer to another chapter etc. is much easier than softcopy. Is it > surprising that a 1000 page manual contains information that softcopy > users never see? > > There's a couple of manuals I print in full, more often I will print a > chapter or 2. Even then the majority of time I use softcopy, but > occasionally when it's a complex topic and my brain starts to strain I > pull out the hardcopy. I almost always learn something new as I flip > through to the correct chapter. > > I could postulate that the technologies that have met with most > resistance on the mainframe (e.g. z/OS Unix, Java) are those that came > along after the switch to softcopy manuals, so people never had the > opportunity to read and learn from hardcopy. > > > Andrew Rowley > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
