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- From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- Subject: Re: IBM TCPIP Softcopy-3 Manuals
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.204448.10403@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 20:44:48 +1200
- References: <92237.151237JGF1@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Aug25.145046.10498@midway.uchicago.edu> <bwiersema.25@bss2.umd.edu> <1992Aug26.161714.7883@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <1992Aug26.161714.7883@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
- > In article <bwiersema.25@bss2.umd.edu> bwiersema@bss2.umd.edu (Brian Wiersema) writes:
- >>>>Does anyone know how to unpack - decode - unscramble the documentation that
- >>>>comes with the TCP software labeled SOFTCOPY-3 MANUALS?
- >>>They are in Book Manager format which can be read using the Book
- >>>Manager/2 product from IBM.
- >>Pretty slick. You have to buy another product in order to read the manuals
- >>for the product you already bought. I wonder what new product you need to
- >>buy to read the Book Manager/2 manuals?
- >>Seriously, is there any ftp-able PD software that can read these files?
- >
- > Well, not quite. Book Manager format is an IBM standard, and it is
- > not entirely unreasonable that purchasers of IBM's TCP/IP will be
- > connecting to IBM RS/6000s, AS/400s, and 370 mainframes, all of which
- > come with Book Manager software, I believe. Further, the softcopy
- > manuals are identical to the printed manuals you get with the product,
- > so it isn't as if you can't read them.
-
- OK. We have an RS/6000-550 here at Waikato. But the person who maintained it
- just left (Hi alistair if youre reading this. Unlikely..), Anyway. Whats the
- name of the executable under AIX, and where is it? I gather its an X-Windows
- app.
-
-
- Oh yeah While I'm here. Why does it take IBM 3 months to get stuff from
- Australia to New Zealand, when I could have them here in 3 days if I ordered
- them direct? Everything I order comes back with 90-day backorder on it, and
- they take the 90-days too. :( Not exactly good for business IBM...
-
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- | Hamish Marson <h.marson@waikato.ac.nz> OS/2 |
- | Programmer (n/5), School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences |
- | University of Waikato, |
- | Hamilton, New Zealand. |
- |Disclaimer: Anything said in this message is the personal opinion of the |
- | finger hitting the keyboard & doesn't represent my employers |
- | opinion in any way. (ie we probably don't agree) |
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