Re: Your opinion requested

From: Doran Werling (Doran167W@aol.com)
Date: 04/10/03 

From: Doran167W@aol.com (Doran Werling)
Date: 10 Apr 2003 11:18:58 -0700

VAXVMS <bounce@notmail.com> wrote in message news:<BA52530E3149734A9BAABDBBFA808E4903027BE7@rlghncst964.usps.gov>...
> I hope everybody's sending their comments to the
> ODLwhatevertheaddresswas at HPdotCOM.
>
> I did.
>
> Judging from the responses in the newsgroup, nobody's
> mentioned one thing (see **) about BNU:
>
> begin response:
>
> BNU never has worked as well as Bookreader in my opinion.
>
> **One *big* problem with BNU is that it has the built-in limitation
> of only being able to access one docset per installation.
>
> In other words, if you install it to read VMS 7.2-1 docs (or Tru64), and
> then install VMS 7.3 docs, you can't read the 7.2-1 docs (or Tru64) any
> more.
>
> Work around this showstopper and you might have something.
>
> I happened to place a call asking about this earlier this week:
>
> ref: NA030407xxxxxx.
>
> end response:
>
> Regards,
>
>
> WWWebb
> ========================
> William W. Webb - EMS Operations
> OpenVMS Systems Support - USPS DSSC Annex
> 4730 Hargrove Road, Raleigh, NC 27616-2874
> 919.325.7500 x4186 <FirstInitialLastNameAtEmailDotUSPSDotGov>

William:

    I was able to configure BNU to access multiple libraries. To do
this , go
to SYS$COMMON:[DECW$DEFAULTS.USER] and edit the file BNU.DAT. At the
bottom of this file you will find this catagory ..

!
! Location of default library and viewers (filled in by installation).
!
BnuLibrary.library:
SYS$COMMON:[DECW$DEFAULTS.USER]LIBRARY.ODL
BnuLibrary.AXPDOCMAR001: DISK$AXPDOCMAR001
BnuLibrary.AXPDOCMAR002: DISK$AXPDOCMAR002
BnuLibrary.VAXDOCDEC981: DISK$VAXDOCDEC981
BnuLibrary.VAXDOCDEC982: DISK$VAXDOCDEC982

The DISK$xxx are logical names that reference the documentation CDs
located on our infoserver.

Next, edit the file LIBRARY.ODL. This will determine how the main menu
looks when you start BNU. Mine looks like this ..

Title Doran's Online Documentation Library
shelf /DISK$AXPDOCMAR001/000000/contents.odl OpenVMS ALPHA Online
Documentation Library (March 1999)
shelf /DISK$VAXDOCDEC981/000000/contents.odl OpenVMS VAX Online
Documentation Library (Dec 1998)

Hope this helps.

Doran Werling
Automation Engineer
RW/SCS Inc.

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