[cctalk] Re: IBM .BOO format

I have quite some experience with this: - I managed to reconstruct the long-lost BookManager Server product for Linux, allowing you to render them as a CGI-bin. Sadly, this got a DMCA takedown, however, the work is trivial to reproduce - you have to download the individual software updates and puzzle them together to get a full-ish install. You will be missing assets, but you can find them in the Internet Archive's wayback machine to complete your efforts (eg .GIF files used to build the UX). You will also have to use ltrace to figure out the last missing bits since it's a cruft that uses dlopen() creatively. Don't expose this CGI to the public internet though; just poking at it to get it to work exposed easy-to-exploit vulnerabilities to get RCX on your machine. - I also have a S/390 and z14, and the S/390 has the OS/390 version of the BookManager Server and Reader. You'd have a much better experience using that one imho since that 3270-based reader is a lot better than the Windows or Web versions. Someone once made a 3390 volume with all .BOO files known to him. I keep quite a few of /400s and my /390 + z14, so I'm often exposed to documentation in this format. It's not that hard to deal with once you have a working reader setup - just make sure to avoid the Java cruft. /y On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 at 10:58, Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk < cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; wrote: -- Sent using CompuServe 1.22