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Posted in 1994
Topics: General Discussion
Mark Yingling writes: >I recently made an inquiry to my Informix rep about having >manuals on-line. The response that I received was not great >(i.e. not much customer interest, so why do it). I disagree with >this assessment. If you have a shop with more than a few >programmers sharing manuals can be a pain, but at about $700 for >a full set of Informix On-Line manuals it may not be in the >budget to provide everyone with a set. It makes much more sense >to me to have manuals on-line and available to everyone. >I am very interested in your comments pro or con to this >argument. If the response is favorable, Informix may produce an >on-line set of manuals. I agree completely, we have 15 - 20 developers trying to share 2 or 3 sets of manuals and sometimes spend several hours trying to find the book that we need. An On-Line manual in the form of unix man pages would be extremely useful. Larry Hector Vector Research Inc. -- #include "disclaimer.h" Arlington, VA