11 Dec
2023
11 Dec
'23
10:48 a.m.
On 12/11/23 1:00 PM, Liam Proven <lproven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone have any experience with the IBM
BookManager format and the
tools to read it?
I've not found any way to open them on a Mac. No joy on Linux yet
either; there's an old unmaintained tool that uses a 32-bit Java app.
I found 2 Windows tools.
One, IBM Library Reader, won't install on Win11.
I have it running in a Windows NT VM, and it prints to PDF using BullZip
just fine. Do you want to point to the library you want to convert, and
I can run this over them?
12 Dec
12 Dec
7:14 a.m.
New subject: IBM .BOO format
On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 at 18:48, David Schmidt via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I have it running in a Windows NT VM, and it prints to PDF using BullZip
just fine. Do you want to point to the library you want to convert, and
I can run this over them?
Thank you!
I found one on the Internet Archive already -- it's here:
https://archive.org/details/sc34-4399-00
This is:
f29al000.boo
The one I haven't found yet is:
f29bdg00.boo
I have a local copy but I did not record where I got it... >_<
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2:06 p.m.
New subject: IBM .BOO format
I ran the Windows reader over the f29al000.boo file, and the results weren't as good
as the ones that IBM printed out in 1992 as available on the Internet Archive; the main
problems I can see is the lack of font support (everything in my PDF was basically
Courier), and most tables were broken in both (even the old IBM one). So if you want to
make the f29bdg00.boo file available I can at least get a Courier version of it back to
you.
Related to IBM CUA/Workplace Shell stuff... I do have a demonstration floppy around here
somewhere of early CUA ideas that IBM put out BITD, if that's part of the itch
you're trying to scratch.)
- David
13 Dec
13 Dec
5:13 a.m.
New subject: IBM .BOO format
On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 at 22:06, David Schmidt via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I ran the Windows reader over the f29al000.boo file, and the results weren't as good
as the ones that IBM printed out in 1992 as available on the Internet Archive; the main
problems I can see is the lack of font support (everything in my PDF was basically
Courier)
Agreed -- same here.
and most tables were broken in both (even the old IBM
one)
TBH I didn't notice that!
So if you want to make the f29bdg00.boo file
available I can at least get a Courier version of it back to you.
That would be wonderful -- thank you!
Would a ~6.5MB email attachment be OK?
Related to IBM CUA/Workplace Shell stuff... I do have
a demonstration floppy around here somewhere of early CUA ideas that IBM put out BITD, if
that's part of the itch you're trying to scratch.)
It's not but it certainly sounds fun. :-)
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