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Sources for Bookmanager books?

 

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Hi All,

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I’m just writing as a newbie who has recently discovered that BookManager Read for MVS works extremely well with my screen reading technology, as do many ISPf utilities, to be fair.

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That being said, I wondered if anyone has OS390 or MVS-era bookshelves anywhere? I know I can find some of this stuff in PDF, but I’d love to get the original formats as well, if only for interest’s sake and to give me practice mucking around with loading it onto the emulator and so on.

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Thanks for any thoughts. ?

Best,

Zack.
 



On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 10:03?PM Zachary Kline via <zkline=[email protected]> wrote:

Hi All,

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I’m just writing as a newbie who has recently discovered that BookManager Read for MVS works extremely well with my screen reading technology, as do many ISPf utilities, to be fair.

?

That being said, I wondered if anyone has OS390 or MVS-era bookshelves anywhere? I know I can find some of this stuff in PDF, but I’d love to get the original formats as well, if only for interest’s sake and to give me practice mucking around with loading it onto the emulator and so on.

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Thanks for any thoughts. ?

Best,

Zack.



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Zack,

You will find 9 CD images of 1998 vintage OS/390 manuals in .BOO format here



Cheers,
John

Hi All,
I>’m just writing as a newbie who has recently discovered that BookManager Read for MVS works extremely well with my screen reading technology, as do many ISPf utilities, to be fair.

That being said, I wondered if anyone has OS390 or MVS-era bookshelves anywhere? I know I can find some of this stuff in PDF, but I’d love to get the original formats as well, if only for interest’s sake and to >give me practice mucking around with loading it onto the emulator and so on.

Thanks for any thoughts. ?
Best,
Zack.
 

Hi,

Thank you very much for pointing this out. I hadn't stumbled across that particular item in my browsing.

It looks like just the sort of thing I was hoping to find.

As a bonus, I am able to use the DOS-based bookreader program under emulation, or presumably upload everything to the "mainframe" system later. I'm very pleased.

Thanks,
Zack.
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Zachary Kline
zkline@...

On Mon, Mar 31, 2025, at 10:47 PM, au1john via groups.io wrote:
Zack,

You will find 9 CD images of 1998 vintage OS/390 manuals in .BOO format here



Cheers,
John

Hi All,
I>’m just writing as a newbie who has recently discovered that
BookManager Read for MVS works extremely well with my screen reading
technology, as do many ISPf utilities, to be fair.

That being said, I wondered if anyone has OS390 or MVS-era bookshelves anywhere? I know I can find some of this stuff in PDF, but I’d love to get the original formats as well, if only for interest’s sake and to >give me practice mucking around with loading it onto the emulator and so on.

Thanks for any thoughts. ?
Best,
Zack.
 

Zack,

For uploading to a Mainframe you may be able to treat the .BOO files as one long multi-file tape.
If you look in the "TAPES" folder on the CD you will find some "TDF" files.
These are there for use on an IBM P/390 "Mainframe in a PS/2" box and allow the .BOO files to appear to OS/390 as one multi-file tape on a P/390
However Hercules also understands ".TDF" files so you should be able to copy all the files from one CD to your Hercules mainframe in a single job.

Dave

On 02/04/2025 03:28, Zachary Kline via groups.io wrote:
Hi,

Thank you very much for pointing this out. I hadn't stumbled across that particular item in my browsing.

It looks like just the sort of thing I was hoping to find.

As a bonus, I am able to use the DOS-based bookreader program under emulation, or presumably upload everything to the "mainframe" system later. I'm very pleased.

Thanks,
Zack.
 

Hello Dave,

Am 02.04.2025 um 09:21 schrieb Dave Wade via groups.io <dave.g4ugm@...>

For uploading to a Mainframe you may be able to treat the .BOO files as one long multi-file tape.
If you look in the "TAPES" folder on the CD you will find some "TDF" files.
These are there for use on an IBM P/390 "Mainframe in a PS/2" box and allow the .BOO files to appear to OS/390 as one multi-file tape on a P/390
However Hercules also understands ".TDF" files so you should be able to copy all the files from one CD to your Hercules mainframe in a single job.
Another possibility is to use FTP, as outlined here:



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