I'm clearly swimming upstream, but I've never used the quick guides, and probably never will. Anything that is a summary of something else carrie s the risk of not being complete.
Brian Nielsen On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:36:17 -0400, Alan Altmark <[email protected] > wrote: >On Tuesday, 03/17/2009 at 09:45 EDT, Mike Hammock ><[email protected]> wrote: >> I also vote for keeping the Quick Guides... I think they are the bes t >> thing since sliced bread! >> The only suggestion I would make would be to 'simplify'; them by >completely >> separating the 1st level and 2nd level install instructions,. >> I find that "skipping around" the "other" parts causes more problems >than >> anything else. > >I appreciate the sentiments. We are not particularly happy about gettin g >rid of them, but their time had come. In order to keep it to "one page" , >the page was going to have to grow to a non-standard piece of paper >because the font was too small, both from an IBM printing standards >perspective and based on complaints from sysprogs. Non-standard = mor e >costly to produce. > >We will instead supply some sort of abbreviated installation/service >procedure as part of the book. It won't skip steps, but neither will it >have the voluminous explanations of the primary text. > >Alan Altmark >z/VM Development >IBM Endicott >======================== ========================= ========================
