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Re: Oracle Metalink doccuments (Adobe Acrobat)

From: Christopher M. Day <christopher.day_at_rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 19:19:22 +0000
Message-ID: <36C32D3A.30D9538F@rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>


Not as inconvenient as closing down the wonderful uk ocis.oracle.co.uk site, and replacing it with metalink !

Chris

lofftjm_at_itec.suny.edu wrote:
>
> Sometime in the recent past, Oracle converted all of the technical
> doccumtents on the Metalink sites from text/html format to Adobe
> Acrobat format. Does anyone know why this was done? I find it
> very inconvient as now doccument sizes seem to average around 2
> megs now. This have made it VERY INCONVIENT when working from home
> over a 56K line. What used to take a few seconds to retrieve, now
> takes minutes.
>
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Received on Thu Feb 11 1999 - 13:19:22 CST

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