From: bfntd@aimnet.com (Tony Damon)
Subject: Re: 'HORABLE' BOOK IS A CROCK OF SHIT was: Oracle Book doesn't Print properly
Date: 1996/02/28
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Marty Boos (w288@g0014) wrote:
: : Thank God someone said it at last. Oracle Book is unusable. I
: : hang onto out of date paper manuals. I spend hours hunting round
: : the help files in Developer 2000. I will do anything to avoid
: : Oracle Book.
 
: : Quite apart from the fact that it is full of bugs, it is SLOW.
 
: : I do hope someone from Oracle reads this. Distributing the
: : documentation in an unusable form does Oracle's reputation
: : not good.
 
: : I wonder what Oracle*Video will be like :-)
: 
: I thought it was just the version for Solaris and then I installed it
: on my 90mhz Pentium at home and guess what it's JUST AS SLOW ON WINDOWS.
: 

At least you can get it to run. Most of the time I get a GPF when
I try to start it up.

Tony Damon