RE: What's happening to the documentation?!?!? Revolt!

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you looking at the V4R4 docs?  V4R3, and below, are the same as the CD.  
V4R4 went worthless.




bvstone@taylorcorp.com on 08/09/99 07:11:28 PM
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I have no problem with the online docs.  They're all I use.  Sure, in some
cases they docs aren't the best, but it's the same docs as the CD rom, so
that shouldn't matter.

Access can be faster and searching can be easier.  I have no problem with
this.  My 2cents.

Bradley V. Stone
BVS/Tools
http://www.bvstools.com




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Bale [mailto:dbale@genfast.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 3:52 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: What's happening to the documentation?!?!? Revolt!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hey, I really don't like the vibes I'm getting from this list 
> about IBM doing
> away with the softcopy CD-rom in favor of web access.  Is it 
> true?  I know we've
> got the softcopy CD-rom for V4R2, our current release.
> 
> Sure, softcopy plus the "library reader" were never a great 
> documentation team,
> but it sure beats the hell out of having to go to the web 
> everytime I need to
> look up something.  Besides, from what I'm hearing here, 
> IBM's web library may
> be in worse shape than the softcopy.
> 
> From my experience working as a consultant and dealing with 
> more than a few
> shops, I can safely say that the majority of programmers do 
> not have web access
> at their desk.  They are either using dumb tubes or are using 
> a PC without any
> internet access.  The environments using PCs that I've been 
> in are usually
> networked and the softcopy is either on a network cd-rom 
> drive or the contents
> are dumped to a network hard drive.
> 
> What does it cost IBM to produce these softcopy CD-roms?  
> Maybe a dime apiece?
> 
> This is an issue I'd be willing to make a _lot_ of noise 
> about.  Or am I jumping
> the gun here?
> 
> - Dan "squeaky wheel" Bale
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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