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Out of Date ?

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 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 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