Re: R.I.P -- BookMaster.....

2008-08-09 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, of course, I need to track down all the people that still have Script files that use BookMaster in them. How the heck do I do that? My conversion was easier. Late 1999, senior mgmt could not get someone to confirm

Re: R.I.P -- BookMaster.....

2008-08-09 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Ian S. Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried DocBook. In the end I just gave up and went back to Word. The learning curve is a bit steep. I am using it now for text that is being generated out of data on VM, and it is not harder to generate SGML than for

Re: R.I.P -- BookMaster.....

2008-08-07 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 01:17:00 -0400, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, 08/06/2008 at 08:13 EDT, Roger Bolan/US/InfoPrint/[EMAIL PROTECTED] S wrote: I'm afraid there's more. See http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=cainfot ype=anappname

Re: R.I.P -- BookMaster.....

2008-08-06 Thread Roger Bolan
I'm afraid there's more. See http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=cainfotype=anappname=iSourcesupplier=897letternum=ENUS908-180 It says there is no replacement product, and service will be discontinued too. The document above lists BookMaster under the section for

Re: R.I.P -- BookMaster.....

2008-08-06 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 08/06/2008 at 08:13 EDT, Roger Bolan/US/InfoPrint/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm afraid there's more. See http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=cainfotype=anappname =iSourcesupplier=897letternum=ENUS908-180 It says there is no replacement product, and

Re: R.I.P -- BookMaster.....

2008-08-05 Thread Ian S. Worthington
@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: R.I.P -- BookMaster. Buried in all of the good news today about z/VM 5.4, z/OS, etc, is this sad note: Software withdrawal: IBM Publishing Systems BookMaster 1.4.0, IBM Publishing Systems ProcessMaster VM Edition 1.3.0, and IBM Publishing Systems ProcessMaster MVS

Re: R.I.P -- BookMaster.....

2008-08-05 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Jones Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 2:19 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: R.I.P -- BookMaster. Buried in all of the good news today about z/VM 5.4, z/OS, etc

Re: R.I.P -- BookMaster.....

2008-08-05 Thread David Boyes
We still use BookMaster 1.4 here to build documents we distribute to clients and such. I think it's about the best way ever for doing computer related documentation of most kinds. Me too. Doc tools written by people who actually have to *use* them. Best system I've seen. Wonder if we could

Re: R.I.P -- BookMaster.....

2008-08-05 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 08/05/2008 at 03:22 EDT, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Buried in all of the good news today about z/VM 5.4, z/OS, etc, is this sad note: Software withdrawal: IBM Publishing Systems BookMaster 1.4.0, IBM Publishing Systems ProcessMaster VM Edition 1.3.0, and IBM