You might want to look at the boo2pdf program by Kevin Bowling at
.
I tried to get it working in my Linux machine but for now it
failed. Probably because I have a 64-bit system, it looks like
boo2pdf requires a 32 bit environment. I do plan to install an
older system to try it again.
Regards, Berry.
Op 27-03-2025 om 04:48 schreef Zachary
Kline via groups.io:
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As a somewhat frustrated
follow-up, I've discovered that my screen reader does not handle
the IBM Softcopy utility at all, at least not without use of
OCR, which is the very problem I was trying to avoid. :) So I'm
either stuck using books in PDF or figuring out how to convert
BOO files to another format, which appears to be non-trivial.
Thanks for the tip concernning
versions of ZVM. The core concepts appear to be similar even if
the details differ. I will continue the journey despite setbacks
:)
Best,
Zack.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025, at 4:24 PM, Zachary Kline via groups.io
wrote:
Hi?Ren¨¦ and all,
Thanks for the quick and helpful
responses. I am, as it happens, without sight of any kind,
hence why I prefer documents in original electronic format
whenever possible to spare me from having to figure out what
the sometimes badly mangled OCR results are saying.
I've so far found the provided
redbook invaluable. I'm at the point of running MVS/ESA under
VM using pre-provided directory entries, which is a decent
step :)
I particularly appreciate the
block-oriented nature of the 3270, as the screen reader
program handles it in some ways far better than more typical
character-by-character UI on, say, Linx.
I will reach out off-list
regarding the larger manual collections, as I don't want to
clutter up the traffic :)
Best,
Zack.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025, at 9:08 AM, Ren¨¦ Ferland via
groups.io wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 09:32 PM, Zachary Kline wrote:
The latter is particularly helpful for me as a
totally blind user.
I am not sure what you mean here, no previous knowledge
or no sight? :-/
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Anyway, if it is the first, I would recommend reading
this:
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It introduces to the basics of z/VM (actually z/VM 5.3)
but most of the material there applies to VM/ESA as well
(since it covers the basics).
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Cheers,
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Rene FERLAND, Montreal
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P.S. -- I have a fairly complete documentation of z/VM
5.3 in PDF format (81 books for 288M). If you are
interested, just tell me, I will send it to you.
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