just not the men's room of a bar. Okay, to justify adding to the joke thread, here is some content I haven't seen on this thread: In addition to the convenience of reading manuals "offline," printed copies have the advantage that you can write on them and fix bugs in the manual and add usage notes. I suppose you can do that as well with the right version of adobe, and we're saving a bunch of trees. So I'm sort of on board with Oracle maintaining the stuff on line and doing the print what you really need stuff for yourself. (although I miss the reverie of merging rev pages into a rack of loose leaf manuals, I guess being able to search and google on line is adequate compensation. Oracle was glue perf anyway.) So a third party quick reference style book up to maybe an inch and a half thick sectioned up nicely would be pretty cool, especially if the editors applied good guessing to leaving some white space to scratch in additions to syntax and (horrors) documentation bug fixes. mwf -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Goulet, Dick Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 2:13 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: An Oracle Utilities Pocket Reference? BOTH. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: Powell, Mark D [mailto:mark.powell@xxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 2:07 PM To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: RE: An Oracle Utilities Pocket Reference? What the men's room, or the bar? -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Goulet, Dick Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 2:02 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: An Oracle Utilities Pocket Reference? I like books as well. For one thing they don't stop working when the = =3D battery dies or the power fails. They are also portable to that place = =3D where men get the most done. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: Freeman, Donald [mailto:dofreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 1:37 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: An Oracle Utilities Pocket Reference? I would like it... I'm book oriented. I printed and bound a number of = =3D =3D3D the 8i manuals for reference. I find using 'help' you keep having to = =3D3D scroll up and down. I don't want to do and crud up the window while I'm = =3D =3D3D actually trying to do something. A little reference book would suit me. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jonathan Gennick Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 11:25 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: An Oracle Utilities Pocket Reference? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------