Hi, Mike,
responding:
True, books are nice but they are gone.
A good index of information has nothing to do with it being in a book. In this case, the discussed book HAS an index. The online data at R:Syntax is organized as a table of contents.
You can use powerful search tools to find instances of a word or phrase. You can search in a HTML document with almost anything. If you want a real comprehensive search then load all the HTML documents in a program such as NoteTab Pro and do a search on all documents.
Online word searching has nothing to do with the intelligent, edited, pre-identified parsing of information found in indexes. So you may be able to narrow down your search with an intelligent query? So what? It can be done once intelligently and presented in a detailed index, or the path to the truth can be found by 600,000 separate people, perhaps several times, over 600 topics. Then those 600,000 people can each build their own partial index with book marks. Big deal.
A good email program will do the same thing if you keep your messages which I, and many others on the list, have done. One day, I have no doubt, RBTI will have a searchable database of all messages on their web site.
more of the same.
Best regards,
Mike Young
I don't want to come down as totally negative here. RBase is a great product. The online pesentation Razzak gave on the new features of RBase was fabulous. I would just like to see and index.
Ike
