Re: 'HORABLE' BOOK IS A CROCK OF SHIT was: Oracle Book doesn't Print properly

Denice Deatrich (deatrich_at_hpopr9.cern.ch) wrote:
: w288_at_g0014 (Marty Boos) writes:
 

: >: 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: hang onto out of date paper manuals.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.
 

: >MRB
 
: It is just as dreadful on an HP 735/99.. It is the most appalling
: software utility I have used in a __LONG__ time... I find it surprising,
: given that there is so much interest in hyper-text and that it is so well
: done by so many... A corporation the size of Oracle could surely do
: better! What kind of systems do they test this stuff on, anyway?
: Sheeesh..
 

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My copy and paste skills has improved dramatically - copy from Book, Paste to Word. Now if only I had the time I would go ever each subtitle and change them into a different font/size just as they appear in the *_at_#$@ Book...

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