IBM Bookmanager reader

[Dave McGuire]

On Dec 19, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>>> This was a pleasant surprise ..  a Java version of the reader for
>>> IBM BookManager files:
>>>
>>> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/applications/office/bkmgr/
>>> softcopyread.html
>>>
>>> It makes some of my old documentation much more accessible.  Sadly,
>>> it is a 66MB download.  (It is also Java code, but requires
>>> Windows.)
>>
>>    It's written in Java, and yet it *requires* Windows?  What is the
>> nature of this requirement?
>>
>>    (I'd love such a reader but don't use Windows!)
>
> There are Linux and OS/2 versions as well.  No idea if the Linux 
> version
> is usable on a non-x86 Linux box.

   The "Linux" version is probably fine...I will pull it down and try it 
when I have a chance.  It's likely that there's a .jar file in there 
somewhere; there just aren't that many different ways to run Java 
bytecode.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL