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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Audio Questions
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 02:57:58 GMT
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- In <vzT-ma+@engin.umich.edu> hillig@U.Chem.LSA.UMich.EDU (Kurt Hillig) writes:
- | Yes, but.... The most valuable feature of a master index is that it
- | points one in the right direction. Having the page numbers off once
- | in a while is a small price to pay for the convenience of knowing
- | just which FM to R. Take a look at DEC's "gray wall" - umpteen
- | volumes to wade through, but the master indices make this a very
- | usable resource.
-
- Note also my comments about manuals being merged, and old ones disappearing;
- it isn't just page numbers. Still, it would be much better than nothing,
- I agree.
-
- | >For a product like the online documentation CD, in theory, this
- | >won't be a problem ;)
- |
- | Only if it's done well - see AIX's infamous InfoExplorer for an example
- | of CD-based docs that the users (at least those who post to comp.unix.aix)
- | uniformly seem to hate - and in any case, CD-based docs are _only_ useful
- | when your machine is working, and Murphy insists that this be a rare case.
-
- I know the folks working on it are aware of those complaints, but
- I haven't used the alpha copies (and never saw InfoExplorer), so I
- don't know how well they have done.
-
- I agree with the part about the system being down, that is why
- some manuals should always be available in hard copy. I think the
- CD manual product is mostly aimed at multiple system sites though,
- so hopefully at least one of your systems (and CD's!) will be
- working...
- --
- 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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