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

On 3 Aug 1995, Walt Hultgren {rmy} wrote: > Based on the wording of the survey and the conversation I had with one of > the Informix booth people, it appears that they are strongly leaning toward > providing CD-ROM manuals that could only be accessed from Windows on a PC. > There would be no way to access the manuals from, say, a Unix workstation > with a CD-ROM drive. Hard-copy manuals would be extra-charge items. Only accessed from windows? Now, that is not a good thing to do... I would consider recommending another database product if they did that... > I've never been that big a fan of on-line manuals as my only documentation > choice, all of the current hubbub over hypertext notwithstanding. If Informix > wants to go the paperless route, make it beneficial to me as well as cost > cutting for them. Pick a format that already has viewers for many environments > like HTML (first choice) or display PostScript. Make regular manual updates > part of basic maintenance and/or make the patch files available via the > Internet. Ideas like that would make me more willing to clean off my > bookshelf. I like the idea of HTML or display Postscript that way it is portable to all the platforms.. At that point in time I would make sure I had a 600MB drive slice to put it on.. HTML is nice because our developers use windows to telenet into our UNIX and to develope GUI apps. If the Manuals where in HTML they could mosaic or netscape to read them from an isolated server (all our dev boxs are isolated).. We would purchase it.. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jason Lambert Bass, Inc. CIX Support Analyst 2211 Arbor Blvd. (513) 293-5732 Dayton, Ohio jlambert@bassinc.com 45439 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=