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- From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: BookReader
- Message-ID: <01GOCCKLXGDE0000M0@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 15:20:57 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The Internet
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- Harry Flowers, FLOWERS@MEMSTVX1.MEMST.EDU, writes:
-
- >In article <gurman.715448263@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov>, gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov
- > (Joseph B. Gurman) writes:
- >>
- [...]
- >>
- >> and you should be able to read any docs on the CD's, since you will have
- >> licensed BOOKBROWSER. (And who said LMF was hard?)
- >
- >*should* is the operative word. I tried reading some of the DECimage scan
- >software docs, and the BOOKBROWSER license wasn't sufficient... I actually
- >had to load the IMAGE-SCAN license just to read the docs. Unfortunately,
- >consistency is not one of DEC's strong points. So, beware of non-conformant
- >docs that won't work with a BOOKBROWSER license.
-
- Can anyone explain why DEC wants a license for the on-line docs? Now, I
- can understand requiring a license for the product to run on your machine,
- but it is interesting to read the docs, and decide that this product would
- really be useful, and then, maybe, purchase it!
-
- -Dan Wing, DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU or WING_D@UCOLMCC.BITNET (DGW11)
- Systems Programmer, University Hospital, Denver
-
-