Re: Informix Documents on CD ...Man Pages ?

In article <3vr3aa$30c@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> root@bassinc.com "Jason Lambert" writes: > On Thu, 3 Aug 1995, bill zhu wrote: > > } Informix may make CD documents running on PC, so when you server is > } down, you still can search it on your PC, and it is faster then your manual. > } > } On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, Sally Woolrich wrote: > } > } It's also hard to read them from the CD when it or the whole box is down! > } > } -- > > Of course if your whole box is down, _WHY_ would you want to read the > informix manuals and not the manuals for the box?????? > > Just a thought on the order of precedence here... I mean, if the box is > down, no offense, but, screw informix, I'm going to get the box online.. > If the box is _really_ (I mean in little pieces) I'll put the CD in another > computer... Besides if they make the CD in HTML format, I could > read from any computer I wanted to... Well. At the end of the day, I prefer paper manuals to having to look at a screen *all* day. I know where to look for what I want. I've met a version of the UNIX manuals in some fancy new X-Windows interface and couldn't find what I wanted. And my hands appreciate the rest from keyboard/mouse activites. I'm with the camp which says do it for those who *want* this sort of thing, but *please* continue with the paper manuals for those of us who don't. Not all of us work at places which have any sort of CD-ROM whatsoever! -- ============================================================================ Sally Woolrich | This mail contains my personal sally@excelsis.demon.co.uk | views not those of my employer! ============================================================================