Re: Anyone try out the Informix Online manuals?
Posted in 1997
In article <635v34$aa7@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Sujit Pal <spal@scotch.den.csci.csc.com> writes >Hi All > >Sorry to take up your bandwidth with this one, but did anybody actually = >try to read the Informix Online manuals at = >http://www.informix.com/answers ?=20 > >Although I have the physical manuals, I thought it would be kind of cool = >to be able to search on a keyword and let the editor move me to the = >right page. I tried both reading it both off the net and downloading the = >file to my local disk and then trying to read it. I tried the ODS 7.2 = >Admin Guide and the Perf manual before I gave up. In every case Acrobat = >says "There was an error processing this page", although surprisingly I = >can see the table of contents on the left window inside the Acrobat = >editor. > >If someone else has succeeded in reading the manuals, I can assume that = >there is nothing wrong with the online manuals and try to figure out if = >it is my browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer) or the Acrobat editor. > It is Acrobat. You are probably using ACrobat 2.1, Informix have upgraded to Acrobat 3.0. Go to www.acrobat.com and download it. >BTW, there is also a button under Support that leads you to register for = >a TechInfo account (http://www.informix.com/techinfo) if you qualify = >(valid support agreement, license number, etc). I did, and they are = >supposed to give me a password to access the site, but I dont seem to = >have got it yet. Anybody know how they send the password? Snail mail, = >perhaps? > Yep, and that snail is slow! >TIA > >Sujit Pal -- David Williams