rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyFor something that was supposedly everywhere in the IBM/Microsoft world in the 80's and 90's, I cannot find a single copy online of IBM's Common User Access specifications.
Micah Blachman@rk Is one of these what you're looking for?
https://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/IBM_Systems_Journal/313/ibmsj3103C.pdf
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/IBM_Systems_Journal/273/ibmsj2703E.pdf
Thank you, but sadly no. Those are *about* the specification, but aren’t the spec itself.
@rk So strange that it's nowhere online! I'd recommend using the search operator "filetype:pdf" as some of the best resources are hiding behind there.
Oh that’s interesting. Thank you!
Alexander Bochmann@rk @micahblachman It seems the source file for that (in Softcopy Reader .boo format) is available at https://archive.org/details/f29bdg00
From a quick view into the file, quite some content has been lost with that PDF conversion.
(A version of Softcopy Reader is here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-softcopy-reader-windows-v40-0)
In general, it's a shame how little of the maze of old IBM documentation web sites has been picked up by the Archive.
oh yes (sickos mode)@galaxis @rk @micahblachman i'm a little annoyed no one's figured out the format of these book files yet, the reader software is annoying and decrepit
@libc @galaxis @rk Looks like there's a program on Github that converts the .boo files to PDFs: https://github.com/kev009/boo2pdf
@micahblachman @galaxis @rk this just runs the linux version of this app in a container; it's ultra janky afaik