25 Aug
2019
25 Aug
'19
10:28 a.m.
Starting around the VMS 5.5 era, isn?t anything from then or later on the Condist
documentation CD?s? And thus we don?t have to make a priority for scanning?
Tim N3QE
10:51 a.m.
On 8/25/2019 12:28 PM, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk wrote:
Starting around the VMS 5.5 era, isn?t anything from
then or later on the Condist documentation CD?s? And thus we don?t have to make a priority
for scanning?
Tim N3QE
IIRC, most of the documentation on the ConDists were in DEC's BookReader format.? That
might be getting hard to read these days unless you happen to have an OpenVMS machine with
DECWindows.? I just looked at my earliest CD - Sept 1995 ODL and except for some of the
basic how to use this CD documents (which are in text and PostScript), it's all in
BookReader format which means you can't read it on a Mac/Windows/Linux system? You
need a OpenVMS or Digital Unix or Ultrix system.
I have a smattering of CD sets starting with a 1994 SPL and then up through 2007 VAX and
2010 Alpha.? The ODL sets are available on HPE's site beginning with the 2005 sets
through the EOL of various platforms - VAX is 2011, Alpha is 2017, Integrity is ongoing
still but coming to an end soon.
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John H. Reinhardt
11:41 a.m.
On 8/25/19 10:51 AM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
That might be getting hard to read
these days unless you happen to have an OpenVMS machine with DECWindows.
There was a way to translate it to Postscript
Copies of the CDs in that form were on the web for a while, haven't looked lately
though.
26 Aug
26 Aug
1:24 a.m.
On 25/08/2019 19:41, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 8/25/19 10:51 AM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
The site seems to be down at the moment but you can normally read many
of the bookreader files online at:
http://odl.sysworks.biz/
The documents are translated to HTML format. Here's the most recent
capture by archive.org:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190504162541/http://odl.sysworks.biz/
Matt
That might be getting hard to read
these days unless you happen to have an OpenVMS machine with DECWindows.
There was
a way to translate it to Postscript
Copies of the CDs in that form were on the web for a while, haven't looked lately
though.
25 Aug
25 Aug
1:02 p.m.
On 25/08/2019 18:28, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk wrote:
Starting around the VMS 5.5 era, isn?t anything from
then or later on the Condist documentation CD?s? And thus we don?t have to make a priority
for scanning?
Tim N3QE
The early ones were just in BOOKREADER format, although that can be
converted to PDF (I think).
V6.0(ish) onwards was on the DEC website as PDFs, although whether
anyone saved complete sets (and all the different version) or not I
don't know. The PDFs might also have been on later CONOLDs, but I don't
recall for sure.
Antonio
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