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NOTE on Potential Discrepancies in HTML versions
of IRIX Manuals Included in the v6.0 DT
It was another "photo-finish" in the race to put the v6.0 on
rails and get it out of the station by the end of March. Although
we "lost" that race, the breadth and depth of the content
successfully put on board the v6.0 train more than made up for
the silly notion of a deadline that had to be met for
"results" to justify "efforts" (sorry, a little bit of
management buzz-thoughts creeping in here....).
With the help of David Clarke in Tech Pubs, we were able to
get the 16 brand new or re-rev'd IRIX Manuals included with
the release of IRIX 6.2 onto the DT in HTML format. This
is a "first" of significant import. With the inclusion of
these 16 Manuals in HTML, ALL
of their textual contents are now indexed and included
in any search query conducted on board the DT.
The "downside" is that David was grappling with impossible
odds to complete a fully robust and error-free conversion
package in time for the DT train schedule. Thus there are
some anomolies and discrepancies lurking within the HTML
copy we have included. If you explore these documents to
to any sufficient degree, you'll notice such abberations
as the fact that many of the in-lined images are illegible,
or that a link to a different file doesn't always jump to
exactly the correct location ("close, but not
quite"). Mixed together with what we call "time", the
limits of technology can become all too apparent, as they
have again here.
So, the temporal "solution" for the v6.0 DT release is,
if you discover something unintelligible, or otherwise
"illegible", the fallback is to go to the PostScript
version of the given manual, where you will find the
100% accurate and correct representation to clarify
whatever is not so in HTML.
We felt the ability to index the complete contents of all
these manuals far out-weighed any shortcomings in the
not-fully-matured translation process. With the PostScript
versions as fall-back, we are extremely pleased to be able
to offer this first-of-its-kind inclusion of Manuals ala
HTML on the DT.
Manuals Access Points
via HTML:
via Insight:
via PostScript:
via High-Level Description With Links To Both Formats: