RE: COMMON in San Antonio (fwd)

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

Not only that but the new format on the CDROM is a royal pain to use and
read!  Give me a hardcopy manual anytime!

Don

On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, PaulMmn wrote:

> Al Barsa wrote (in part):
> 
> >There are many attendees of System Values that take copious notes.  For
> >them, eliminating the handout would be a big problem.
> >
> >If killing trees offends you, I'm sorry.
> 
> 
> There are a lot of technical sessions that -scream- out for handouts on
> which to take notes.  Unfortunately, until we have those Star Trek
> electronic clipboards that will display hundreds of pages of text and let
> us scribble notes on the page, there will be a need for paper copies of a
> lot of handouts.
> 
> I still hate the fact that IBM has stopped issuing AS400 manuals in hard
> copy, and only issues the things on CD ROMs.  Not much space for marginal
> notes on the CD.  And it's still hard to open 5 manuals at once on the
> screen.
> 
> --Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com
> 
> 
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