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Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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Gary asks:

> Just out of curiousity, am I the only one who uses the Dynatext manuals?
>
>  I don't need to be connected to the internet, and by copying the CD to my
>  PC, I've eliminated the CD as well (plus I can mix HPUX and MPE all in one
>  massive collection).  Of course, this costs in disk space but space is
cheap
>  these days.

The thing about the "old" text-based, courier-fonted HTML manuals is not only
are they high speed, they are also very easy to reference in emails. In that
regard, I use them constantly in support of our customers. If the manuals
were only of concern to me, I would do exactly as you have done, load them on
a PC and share them internally. But they're much more important to us than
merely that. Not only are the old typewriter-style manuals better segmented
than the Dynaweb manuals, they're much easier to read, much quicker to
locate, and they're much easier to reference.

However, it appears that I wasn't altogether wrong in my first posting. All
of the 5.0 manuals (which form the base the for 5.5 manual sets) are now
gone, as are the manuals on things such as network printing in 5.5.

Wirt Atmar

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