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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:32:00 EDT
- Reply-To: "Philip Gallagher,(919)966-7275" <UPHILG@UNC.BITNET>
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- From: "Philip Gallagher,(919)966-7275" <UPHILG@UNC.BITNET>
- Subject: SAS manuals on IBM's Book Manager?
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- Dear, Decisive, Darling, and Daring Deb Cannon suggests that:
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- " ... While I have no beef against SAS
- documentation per se, wouldn't it be great to have it all
- ONLINE? With indexes (a Book Manager feature) , so you can search
- entire 'sets' of manuals for all existing verbage on a feature?
- IBM, I'm told, has left a door open for third-party documentation.
- Anyone heard how SAS is going to react to this? Surely all the
- manuals are already in machine-readable format..... "
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-
- Deb has just proven that she is NOT an old poop, because
- it must certainly be true that all legitimate Old Poops
- remember how we used to joke in the Seventies that SPSS
- made its profit from the sale of manuals rather than the
- sale of software.
-
- Is there anyone who doubts that a major portion of SAS Institute
- revenue must come from manual sales? (At least a major part of
- my professional expenses is attributable to manual purchases!)
- Since putting the manuals online would almost certainly mean
- markedly decreased manual sales income for SAS Inst., would that
- not be likely to result in further software price increases?
-
- Great idea, Deb, I'd love to have
- access to continuously updated SAS manuals,
- but ...
- Phil Gallagher, C.O.P.
- uphilg@unc
-
- C.O.P. -- Certified Old Poop (on a good day, anyway)
-
- On the other hand, maybe Jim & John would prefer to see us slogging
- along with super manual access, even if it cost them profits?
- That would certainly be their prerogative, I guess.
-