RE: RTFM (was: CPYF behavior)

[Colin Williams <Williamsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You may already know this but,

create your own bookshelf when using the CD, and add your commonly used
books to it.
Makes using the CD a lot easier 'cos you dont have to hunt around trying
to find the right bookshelf.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: DAsmussen@aol.com [mailto:DAsmussen@aol.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 2:15 AM
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject: Re: RTFM (was: CPYF behavior)
>
>
>Don,
>
>In a message dated 1/14/00 10:24:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>dr2@cssas400.com writes:
>
><<snip>>
>> IF we still had the hard copy resources of old, I think 
>you'ld see alot
>>  more exploring into the manuals....and you'd have alot of 
>folks that would
>>  just fumble into it cuz they turned the wrong page....not so with
>>  softcopy.  It's  ALOT easier to just reach over and grab 
>the book than
>>  to play "who's got the CD this week?".....but in many shops 
>they may not
>>  know where the CD is IFF indeed they know that it 
>exists....and Lord help
>>  you if you've got a real doink for a business partner 
>(ACTUAL CASES HERE!)
>>  that tells you that there was not only no upgrade in the 
>softcopy for the
>>  release, but there haven't been any significant changes since
>>  several ago....yes, I've had to kick some butt here...:)
><<snip>>
>
>My Don ate my homework!  Actually, just stole my answer.  Back 
>when Simon 
>first said "So long, and thanks for all the fish", most AS/400 
>shops had hard 
>copy manuals even if they were outdated.  Today, we're relegated to 
>"windowesque" searches wherein you have to know what you're 
>looking for 
>before you find it.  To use Al's "S-word", it SUCKS.  No index 
>search -- 
>hell, it's hard to even find the manual you're looking for 
>even when you know 
>it!  Just "keyword" search now, which returns 30+ hits whether 
>or not they're 
>appropriate to your question.  CL, DDS, RPG, multi-language, 
>and display file 
>programming manuals don't even appear in the same bookshelf anymore!
>
>No, people shouldn't come here asking someone to write their 
>first subfile 
>program for them.  Nor should "newbies" be afraid to ask a 
>simple question.  
>Perhaps more direction to the archives should be provided for 
>first-time 
>users?
>
>Regards!
>
>Dean Asmussen
>Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
>Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
>E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
>
>"Experience is a wonderful thing.  It enables you to recognize 
>a mistake when 
>you make it again." -- Anonymous
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