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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:40:00 PDT
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- From: Leonard D Woren <LDW@USCMVSA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: CD-ROM
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- IBM not documenting the format of bookmanager files is just another
- example of why people are fleeing proprietary systems and formats.
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- Steve's original question stated that he'd like to be able to write an
- X interface for displaying bookmanager files. I agree. I want to be
- able to copy from the CD-ROMs to MVS dasd, and fire up an x-whatever
- on my workstation to view the books.
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- It's really too bad that IBM still doesn't have a clue. IBM software
- and hardware is moving forward, but the rest of the computing world is
- moving forward *faster*.
-
- /Leonard
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