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Simon L. Prinsloo
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Personally I prefer the PDF documentation on the local machine. I rarely use the Web based documentation. I find the PDF docs on the local machine much more responsive and simpler to read when I know exactly what I am looking for. I can send the relevant manual to my Kindle for some "light bed time reading" when I need to learn something new, or simply want to sharpen my knowledge. The pdf docs are always at the same place and they are always accessible to me. The internet might not be and the links to online documentation can change. I might not be looking for "latest' but for the previous version where this-or-that is not available and I need to remember how we did it before that. I never remove old documentation sets, even if I uninstall the version and delete the install files. You never know which version the next phone call will involve. I admit freely that HTML with links makes for rapid random access when you need to jump all over the place, but that is not how I learn and it is rarely what I need. Using the online documentation to try to learn something gives me the feeling of reading fragments and bits and pieces. Working with the traditional page layout of a book gives me the feeling that there is structure and method and a step-by-step process to soak up new knowledge.
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