I use linux and for many years I have organized the IBM z/OS PDFs by making
symlinks to the actual file name where the symlink name is the actual title
of the PDF.
That way, you can easily search for the title (symlink) to find a book, but
the inter-book links work.
Here's the script that I use to set everything up. I just tried it with
the latest zip download of pdfs and it works fine - the inter-document
links work just fine, like before.
#!/bin/sh
# Make symlinks to all .pdf files in the current directory to names that
match their Title:
ls -1 *.pdf | while read f
do
echo "Examining: "$f
title=$(pdfinfo "$f" | grep "Title:" | cut -c17- | tr -d '/\\:' | tr ' '
'_')
if test -n "$title" -a ! -s "$title.pdf" ; then
echo "link $title.pdf -> $f"
ln -s "$f" "$title.pdf"
fi
done
On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 2:01 AM Martin Packer <martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com>
wrote:
>
> Unless you use an app like Liquid Copy (on iPad) which makes all that very
> easy.
>
> I’m doing a lot of technical book reading that way.
>
> Cheers, Martin
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 1 Mar 2019, at 23:11, Andrew Rowley <and...@blackhillsoftware.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2/03/2019 4:55 am, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> >> I can see making copies for laptops off of the Internet, but dead tree?
> I wish I didn't believe you.
> >>
> > You can tell the people who learned from printed manuals from those who
> > use only softcopy ones - the people who learned from softcopy ask "How
> > do I do..." and the people who learned from hardcopy answer them.
> > (Mostly joking!)
> >
> > I suspect most of us on this list are old enough to have started in
> > mainframe with hardcopy manuals. We may not appreciate how difficult it
> > is to learn z/OS without them.
> >
> > When learning a complex new concept, a hardcopy manual where you can
> > stick a finger in a page, flip backwards, view multiple pages at once,
> > refer to another chapter etc. is much easier than softcopy. Is it
> > surprising that a 1000 page manual contains information that softcopy
> > users never see?
> >
> > There's a couple of manuals I print in full, more often I will print a
> > chapter or 2. Even then the majority of time I use softcopy, but
> > occasionally when it's a complex topic and my brain starts to strain I
> > pull out the hardcopy. I almost always learn something new as I flip
> > through to the correct chapter.
> >
> > I could postulate that the technologies that have met with most
> > resistance on the mainframe (e.g. z/OS Unix, Java) are those that came
> > along after the switch to softcopy manuals, so people never had the
> > opportunity to read and learn from hardcopy.
> >
> >
> > Andrew Rowley
> >
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