I prefer pdfs now days. I can use the find feature to easily find what I am looking for.
Dan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Bentley Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 4:25 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Keeping track of R:Base documentation Gunner, I too miss printed manuals. Several years ago we had a spirited discussion on this list about printed manuals as then you could only use online help. As a result of that discussion Razzak responded by making available a series of PDF files that encompassed what was in online help. These included: CommandIndex.pdf FunctionIndex.pdf Tutorial.pdf ProgrammingInRBASE.pdf Tipofthedaydigest.pdf You could view it in acrobat reader or even print them out. It is a marvelous way to keep up with an ever envolving product. Periodically Razzak will send out a list of these valuable files to this list. The only improvement I would make would be for there to be a page on the www.rbase.com website where in one place you could go to download the latest version of these files. Jim Bentley American Celiac Society [email protected] tel: 1-504-737-3293 ----- Original Message ---- From: Gunnar Ekblad <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 10:23:07 AM 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 -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] För Paul InterlockInfo Skickat: den 23 december 2008 17:04 Till: RBASE-L Mailing List Ämne: [RBASE-L] - Re: Keeping track of R:Base documentation 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 Saving Lives - One Breath at A Time T This e-mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above and is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act 18 U.S.C. Section 2510-2521. This e-mail is confidential and may contain information that is privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in error please immediately notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this e-mail message from your computer. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hans Manhave/Jackson-Lloyd Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 10:49 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Keeping track of R:Base documentation 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 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 8:31 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Keeping track of R:Base documentation 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, --- Hans Manhave
