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Ta Fuh Chiam,

You wrote
>We are thinking about subscribing to on-line documentation and do away with
>hard-copy documentation for all layered products and VMS.

We have found that, by itself, a subscription to the OLD (OnLine
Documentation) CD-ROM is inadequate.

Some of the documentation is out of date (e.g. the SMG
manuals), some of the "shelves" are incomplete (e.g. the GKS and
PHIGS shelves do not include the _Users' Manual_s), and many products'
manuals are not on the disk (e.g. DECmcc network management).
Also, the VMS manuals frequently are updated only for major releases.
Since text searches are not implemented, finding information
can sometimes be very frustrating. The indexes leave a bit to be
desired.

>How do people handle a VMS INstallation Guide situation?

The products on the CONDIST (Consolidated Software Distribution) CD-ROM
(including VMS) usually include printable installation manuals and release
notes in plain ASCII and in PostScript.

As with the Documentation discs, however, there are problems:
new software releases usually gets to the CDs several months later than
the individual distribution kits, and not all elegible products are
included. Also, not all products can be included: only those which
are LMF compliant are allowed to be put on the discs.

I hope this helps.

Selden E. Ball, Jr.

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