| Title: | Topics for Discussion about CDROM |
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| Moderator: | WMOENG::PACKARD |
| Created: | Thu Mar 14 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Hello,
This is cross posted in the Bookreader Notes Conf. as follows.
Any help or direction would be appreciated.
Dave Bechtold
DTN 343-1216
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I'm not sure if this is the correct conference for this topic or not.
If not, please directly me as appropriate.
I have some questions on the new Bookreader Navigation Utility for
OpenVMS.
1) What are all the mechanisms to access the CD's ?
Bookreader had the logicals DECW$BOOK and DECW$BOOKSHELF.
BNU has a resource file with a resource named
'BnuLibrary.AXPDOCMAR971:' and another named 'BnuLibrary.AXPDOCMAR972:.
Can there be 1 location that is a search path using a Logical similiar
to Bookreader ? ie. DECW$BOOK Logical.
2) Is it possible to point to a CD on another system ?
We currently have a custoemr trying to use BNU to access there CD's on
anotehr node in the network using DECnet. Under Bookreader they used
the DECW$BOOK logical and pointed it at the node and diskdrive etc...
Example: DECW$BOOK = ALFAXP::DISK$AXPDOCMAR961:[DECW$BOOK]
3) Are there any HTML files that it can invoke off the March 1997
Online Documentation CD's ? In doing so, I would expect Netscape
Navigator to be invoked with the file displayed. Everything I have
reviewed so far has used the BNU. I'm sure we're going to be asked
why it requires Netscape Navigator if everything is useing BNU.
Any information on Managing BNU via Resource files, logicals, and or
data files would be appreciated. The "User's Guide" on the CD's under
the [README] directory doesn't help to answer these and any of the
Management type questions.
Regards,
Dave Bechtold
DTN 343-1216
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>> 1) What are all the mechanisms to access the CD's ? >> >> Bookreader had the logicals DECW$BOOK and DECW$BOOKSHELF. >> >> BNU has a resource file with a resource named >> 'BnuLibrary.AXPDOCMAR971:' and another named 'BnuLibrary.AXPDOCMAR972:. BNU does not use logicals. It does use resource files and .ODL files. The setup procedure on each ODL CD-ROM set defines the appropriate resources in the BNU resource file (DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS:BNU.DAT). >> Can there be 1 location that is a search path using a Logical similiar >> to Bookreader ? ie. DECW$BOOK Logical. This is not necessary with BNU. When you run the ODL setup procedure, it adds an entry to the system's LIBRARY.ODL (the location of this library is defined by the 'BnuLibrary.library' resource which, by default, points to DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS:LIBRARY.ODL. >> 2) Is it possible to point to a CD on another system ? No. >> We currently have a custoemr trying to use BNU to access there CD's on >> anotehr node in the network using DECnet. Under Bookreader they used >> the DECW$BOOK logical and pointed it at the node and diskdrive etc... >> Example: DECW$BOOK = ALFAXP::DISK$AXPDOCMAR961:[DECW$BOOK] They can still use Bookreader logicals with Bookreader to access Bookreader CD's on another node. >> 3) Are there any HTML files that it can invoke off the March 1997 >> Online Documentation CD's ? In doing so, I would expect Netscape >> Navigator to be invoked with the file displayed. Everything I have >> reviewed so far has used the BNU. I'm sure we're going to be asked >> why it requires Netscape Navigator if everything is useing BNU. Yes, there are some HTML books on the March ODL. For example, the new FORTRAN docsets include HTML books. Yes, Netscape Navigator is invoked to display HTML files (but be patient--it may take a while if it has to cold-start Netscape Navigator.) I think you mean that everything has used Bookreader to display? BNU only navigates the library and invokes the appropriate viewer for the book you choose to open. >> Any information on Managing BNU via Resource files, logicals, and or >> data files would be appreciated. The "User's Guide" on the CD's under >> the [README] directory doesn't help to answer these and any of the >> Management type questions. More information on this will be forthcoming, but if you follow the setup instructions with the ODL, you shouldn't need to do any more "management" of you ODL libraries. I hope this helps. joe | |||||