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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Audio Questions
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- References: <1992Jul25.163827.22304@news.iastate.edu> <nobregg@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <1992Jul26.220045.8227@news.iastate.edu> <1992Jul26.222526.9166@news.iastate.edu> <nq81smc@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <1992Jul27.150050.10809@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 19:42:35 GMT
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- In <1992Jul27.150050.10809@news.iastate.edu> bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske) writes:
- | In article <nq81smc@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- | >In <1992Jul26.222526.9166@news.iastate.edu> bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske) writes:
- |
- | [stuff deleted]
- |
- | >That still doesn't help if you don't know what manual
- | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- | >to look at though. The online (CD based, although it could be copied
- | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- |
- | My very point.
- |
- | >to a hard disk) documention product that is being worked on should
- | >help for this though (and no, it emphaticaly does *not* replace the
- | >hard copy manuals, although some of us had to fight for that).
- |
- | I know about whatis/apropos and about the upcomming cd-rom product,
- | I'm just saying that one cumulative index (this can be found in that
- | manual on those pages) for hard-bound manuals would be, well, nice.
-
- The problem is that these manuals are redone over long time frames,
- so we would be reissuing the master index every time a new manual
- was issued (that is, we don't reissue every manual at once). Not
- only that, but stuff moves from one manual to another, or old
- manuals go away, etc. My guess is that a master index would
- therefore always be wrong, which would be even more frustrating.
-
- For a product like the online documentation CD, in theory, this
- won't be a problem ;)
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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