Re: WWW access to Informix Bugs database

In <NEWTNews.812889226.19895.alex@alexpc.films.com> "Alexander J. Oss" <alex.oss@films.com> writes: >In Article<44s1ss$alf@necco.harvard.edu>, <bochner@das.harvard.edu> write: >> For the first time in a couple of years I've got something I want to >> look up in the Informix Bugs database, and I was hoping to be able to do >> it via the Informix Web page. But when I click on the "TechInfo Center" >> and enter my InformixLink login ID and password, it doesn't accept it. >> Is the TechInfo Center something you need to pay extra to access, over >> and above InformixLink? Or am I just doing something wrong? >> >> I'm hoping I don't still have to go hunting around for a 2400 baud modem >> to look something up on InformixLink, the way I used to, but I haven't >> been keeping up with developments, so maybe that's wishful thinking. >I've taken your journey. I thought I'd just call up and get a password, since >I buy tech support from them, and I explicitly stated I wanted access to the >TechInfo Center. >I received a login and password and joyfully sprang to the Web, only to be >frustrated. >Then I read the small print on something they sent in that package: >TechInfo/TechTips is "available with full-view InformixLink", which is >definitely not free: > full view w/10 hrs $400 > full view w/50 hrs $1200 > add'l hrs: > 10 $300 > 50 $1100 > 100 $2000. >They couldn't tell me this over the phone, I guess... If this is the case, why don't we start our own Bugs database? Who knows the bugs better than us? I have an Informix database running on the same machine as our Web server and I'd be willing to donate the resources... -- - o - o Clay Irving (clay@panix.com), N2VKG o - o o AEC NYC ARES, New York County o - Deputy Radio Operator, NYC RACES, New York County - o - - Start --> http://www.panix.com/clay