From: nolan@celery.tssi.com
To: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Documentation quality WAS: interesting PHP/MySQL thread
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 02:05:23 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <20030624070523.3482.qmail@celery.tssi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200306232304.04070.josh@agliodbs.com>
> ??? You can look at an HTML file directy with any browser. If you're SSH-ing
> in to a remote system, use Lynx. Though I agree that providing both man and
> html would be nicer.
Try accessing a HTML file on a Linux system from a PC-based browser.
Unless you have some kind of file sharing software running, which I
generally don't because the only times I've ever been hacked into they
got in through file sharing ports, you can't get there from here.
> O'Reilly seems to be pretty hit-and-miss on this account. The Perl books are
> well-indexed, but "SQL in a Nutshell" has *no* index, perhaps because
> O'Reilly thought (wrongly) that it didn't need one because of the
> dictionary-like format. The O'Reilly label is not a guarentee of quality,
> just a general indicator.
I think the 'Nutshell' books are a different breed of cat, none of them
have ever had indexes worth mentioning.
> Authors seldom do the indexes themselves, as indexing is a black art known to
> few (and I have yet to see a really good index prepared by the author --
I've been somewhat involved in three book projects (two textbooks and
one rule book), in all three case the authors did their own index. Maybe
I've just had a good run of luck on the O'Reilly books I've bought, or maybe
I haven't bought as many of them in the last three or four years as I used
to.
--
Mike Nolan
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