I do basically the same as Bruno. I save the r9pdf.htm page, replace the hyperlinks with the dir path containing the manuals, then download all manuals into the same dir keeping the original name. Works great, AND, you can search the entire (r9pdf.html) page to look for what you want. Also, depending on the version of Adobe, you can also search within all manuals looking for what you want (in extreme cases).
Mike Wilkins Accenture -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of David Alcock Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Downloading IBM manuals Every time a new z/OS operating system level comes along I go to the IBM library page and download each manual I'm interested in (i.e. most in the MVS bookshelf) one at a time and give them somewhat meaningful names like "zos 110 init and tuning ref.pdf" instead of iea2e291.pdf for example. What do you do? I just tried out using the DownloadThemAll Firefox add-on and you can easily get all manuals with the cryptic 8.3 filenames. I found a PDF library for Python that is easy enough to use to display the titles by the file names. See this web page I created: http://www.planetmvs.com/mvsintosh/IBM_Manuals/index.html I'm probably missing a lot easier way of doing things. I started searching for some type of freeware that displays PDF titles in a directory but have been unlucky so far. Any suggestions? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
