IBM Bookmanager reader

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Michael B. Brutman 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!)

The installer requires Windows.  I've gotten the reader to work under 
NetBSD.  It just takes some fiddling.

Peace...  Sridhar