From: Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net>
To: nolan@celery.tssi.com
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: 'Advocacy PostgreSQL' <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>
Cc: 'PostgreSQL-general' <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Documentation quality WAS: interesting
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:01:56 -0700
Message-ID: <3EF867E4.9070700@cvc.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030624070523.3482.qmail@celery.tssi.com>
References: <20030624070523.3482.qmail@celery.tssi.com>
There are MANY browsers that come with Linux nowadays. the one mentioned, Lynx, is text based, so you don't even have to have X running, or installed.
nolan@celery.tssi.com wrote:
>>??? 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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