[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote 2011-11-23 20:22:
> In article<jajd9v$kpf$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>  writes:
>> JF Mezei wrote 2011-11-23 18:58:
>>> Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is on part number QA-001AA-GZ "OVMS Full Documentation".
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a separate line item for the documentation CDs ?
>>>
>>>
>>> The question becomes whethyer paper documentation remains available for
>>> purchase (say you have a new customer) or whether it will be digital only.
>>>
>>>
>>>> BTW: Personally, while I use online resources for reference material,
>>>> I still prefer to use paper for tutorial/conceptual type reading when a
>>>> paper option is available. Am I alone in this ?
>>>
>>> Paper is often better unless you have 5 displays on your desktop :-(
>>> paper is also necessary when you do work at the SRM level or very low
>>> level (such as SYSBOOT) where your system has not booted sufficiently
>>> for you to access on-line documentation.
>>
>> Bull...
>>
>> Everyone professionall enough reads the PDFs on a laptop or
>> similar, not on the target system you are supporting, of course.
>
> Then, I guess I'm an un-"professionall".

Yes, sometimes it sure looks like that at least.
Knowing every single bit of the VMS kernel does not count.

It's also unprofessional to always deliberately misspell
Microsoft and Windows. Close to childish, I'd say.




> Kill them trees for me, I say.
> I currently have a foot and a half high stack of manuals beside my desk
> that I've been referencing quite regulary.  Trying to fit a full page of
> any PDF documentation on a laptop makes its print too small to be easily
> read.  Fine scrolling, when the manual is several hundred pages, is also
> a PITA!
>