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Gea,
Dick Binder maintains the form of the doc files. Here's his response
to my query about your note:
BKB and BKS are the ISO 9660-compliant extensions for Bookreader books
and bookshelves, respectively. BNU can't read these files.
To open a shelf with a .BKS extension, use Bookreader's File>Open dialog,
and change the filter so that it looks for files named *.BKS or *.bks,
as desired, instead of files named *.decw_book.
-dick
\ken
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Check out note 326.28 in the HYLNDR::CDROM conference. If the Digital UNIX
ODL CD-ROM's follow the OpenVMS Alpha (and VAX) ODL CD-ROM's, my guess is that
the "BNU" kit itself will live on disk1 of n on the Q2CY97 Digital UNIX release.
It is already present on the Q1CY97 OpenVMS Alpha (and VAX) release.
On the OpenVMS side, you just run a little command procedure that installs
BNU itself (if needed) and then sets up the environment for the ODL CD-ROM's
themselves. I'd imagine that the next release of the Digital UNIX ODL CD-ROM's
will include a similar script to install BNU (if needed) and then set up the
environment for the ODL CD-ROM's so you can get to the books (".bkb" files) via
the new BNU-style shelves (".odl" files).
FWIW. the ".bks" files are analogous to the ".decw_bookshelf" files (U*ix)
or the ".DECW$BOOKSHELF" files (OpenVMS) and by invoking Bookreader directly
(vs letting BNU invoke it for you), you can still navigate the ".bks" shelf
files to get to the ".bkb" book files. Bookreader (at least on OpenVMS)
can't digest the new BNU-style shelves (".odl" files). The need for BNU to
fire up Bookreader will decrease over time as the OS & LP documentation sets
are migrated to HTML, but BNU itself doesn't care about a specific document
format, it just navigates a generic "shelf" (i.e. the ".odl" files) and then
invokes the appropriate "viewer" whether the book is Bookreader, HyperText,
HTML or whatever, cheers...
Tony Swierkowski
Digital Equipment Corporation
Software Partner Engineering
Palo Alto, California
(415) 617-3601
"[email protected]"
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