Re: All u vendors out there

In article <326hanINNf5i@ringer.syd.dwt.csiro.au>, Peter Wiley - Poultry <peter@prospect.anprod.csiro.au> wrote: >I'd like to see the Informix manuals on-line but there are 2 interpretations. > >1. On-line via CDROM etc on the local server(s). Can't see a problem with this. > >2. On-line on the net. Nice, but not sensible from Informix's point of view. >As Jonathan said, they sell manuals. This would also encourage piracy, IMO, >and that isn't in any of us's interests. Now I do like Informix's new manuals, but they are getting large and wordy. A nice, stripped down version kind of like the original UNIX ref manuals (the ones you get when you do "man foo") would be neat; just the facts. These wouldn't take up a lot of on-line room. I'm nervous of things like the Solaris Answer Book (online docs in the most voluminous fashion), as they take up either many CDs or much disk space (neither is cool in my view). And one closing word (OK more than one) in favour of printed books, especially when someone like O'Reilly does them; there's no subsitute for a manual that works when the system's down. Chris Hermansen Timberline Forest Inventory Consultants Voice: 1 604 733 0731 302 - 958 West 8th Avenue FAX: 1 604 733 0634 Vancouver B.C. CANADA clh@tfic.bc.ca V5Z 1E5 C'est ma facon de parler.