Re: Informix Database Admin Guide...Out of Date ?

Jonathan Leffler wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, June Tong wrote: > > > Sigh. When Informix didn't have on-line manuals, people were complaining that > > "everyone else has on-line manuals, why don't you?" > > Well, what I wanted was a man page: > > man dbaccess > man isql > man ontape > man oncheck Yes, this would be useful - a brief reminder of the command-line syntax available from the command line. A -h option would be better than nothing. Can't the FrameMaker software used for writing the manuals spit out man pages as well as PDF/PostScript? > > No rocket science -- simple, on-line help manual pages for OnLine. I've never > understood the desire to have the full manuals OnLine -- there's no harm done, > but I can't read them where I don't have a computer, unlike a book. I too like paper books. A book gives you extra screen space. Helps if it can lie flat without use of a third hand, though. See O'Reilly books for how to do that. > > I don't know whether there was a fundamental disconnect between Tech Pubs and > the field; maybe there was... > > Yours, > Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <witticism.h> > Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN > Informix IDN for D4GL & Linux -- http://www.informix.com/idn -- Peter Lancashire Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 --- If all else fails, read the instructions and the release notes. Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/ ---