Re: Recommended Books etc

cedler@boi.hp.com (Chris Edler) writes: >jgordon@ssf-sys.DHL.COM (Jim Gordon) writes: >: >: Check out the latest manuals from Informix for 4.1 and 5.0. They are >: much improved, with a better lay out and they cover many things left > ^^^ >I have to disagree with Jim. I have manual sets for both version 4.00 and >version 4.1/5.0 . It seems Informix really wanted to save money on these. >I really loved the binder-type manuals that came with the earlier versions. >The manuals I got with 4.1 were paperback-type. Did you ever try to type >code while having one of the pages open? You need a brick to sit on the >book. Also, there are no external tabs for the chapters so you have to >flip through each manual to find the correct chapter. I guess you can't please everybody. Customers complained about the binder-type manuals because they took too much room on the shelf, were too difficult to lug around, and they didn't like assembing the manuals themselves. I can see the advantages of the older manuals, but I do not mind the new ones. The new manuals have have helped us get products to customers more efficiently in less time with lower cost. It was a MAJOR improvement for our manufacturing operation. Manuals and software now fit nicely into one package. I'm looking at my bookshelf now, and all software manuals on it are the paperback type, except older Informix manuals. (There even used to be one manual from one of our competitors whose name began with the letter "O" that was also a paperback.) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Randall Rhea Informix Software, Inc. Project Manager, MIS Sales/Marketing Systems uunet!pyramid!infmx!randall