I've still use my v5.5 manuals - rarely now, maybe, but they can still be
useful.
I find too, of course, that knowing the answer to your question before you
ask it always helps <g> - but I know exactly what you mean, Gunnar, it's
asking the expected question in the expected way that can be so awkward
sometimes in finding a way to the answer.
Regards,
Alastair.
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From: "Gunnar Ekblad" <[email protected]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 4:23 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Keeping track of R:Base documentation
In the good old days we had a reference manual and a user's guide.
I just picked up my 5.5 reference manual and it did solve my issue (to find
009 as the tab char). I do realize that a manual is old as soon as it is
printed. But I will keep my 5.5 forever since it is the last one I have.
I know online help, which is fine, but sometimes with online help you need
to knew the answer to really put the question,
Gunnar Ekblad
Kontema IT AB
Hästholmsvägen 32
131 30 Nacka
Sweden
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I have a similar approach and currently using a program to convert emails to
pdf's. I then use R:PDFSearch to search for key words. I am trying to
include this all into a database and perhaps compile it also.
I would like any suggestions or thoughts anybody might have this subject. I
guess if I had the time I would make it available it my first RWeb project.
Sincerely,
Paul Dewey
New Horizon Interlock Inc.
New Horizon Safety Diagnostics Inc.
www.interlockinfo.com
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Manhave/Jackson-Lloyd
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 10:49 AM
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Thank you, I probably need to make such a document too. Even if I don't
have a question about something today, I will most likely have it in the
future so it would be good to have a searchable reference available.
Hans
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Hans: I don't mess around with emails at all, to tell you the truth. I
have 2 Word documents, called RBaseArticles and Version7. Going back many
years, if there was an email with something I thought was good, I'd the text
into my RBaseArticles document. I have separate sections with headers like
"General installation, migration", "PlugIns, UDFs", "Date / Time functions",
"Network problems". That document is 22 pages. Very easy to search.
Then when Version 7 came out, I started a new document for just that, again
with headers. If I wrote a nice piece of code and wanted to make sure I
could find it and reuse it, I put that into the document too. This document
is now 174 pages and is invaluable to me! I've thought of selling it ....
If someone had time on their hands, they could start up a Word document by
going thru their emails. As for the PDFs, I skim the ones that I have,
rename them to something easier for me to identify. If there's only a
small part of the PDF that's "new or cool", then I copy that part into my
Word document and erase the PDF. Or I may put a note in my Word document
referring to the PDF document by name.
Karen
What is the best way of keeping track of all the PDFs with R:Base
documentation?
Not any less important, how do people keep track of all the e-mail?
I have
it in an Outlook folder from which I hope to use search or find with
Outlook.
The info is becoming voluminous and I am naturally bad in organizing
that
kind of thing.
Thanks for any suggestions,
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Hans Manhave
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