David G. Miller wrote: > Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at ...> writes: >> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:13 AM, David G. Miller <dave at ...> wrote: >> > >> >> Red Hat Linux is ancient. >> > <SNIP> >> > I started with Red Hat Linux 5 in 1998. Mind your manners when >> > calling RHL 9 ancient or I'll come over and hit you with my walker. >> >> In computer years, that's like a century ago. >> > <SNIP> > I guess that means the IBM and CDC mainframes I started out on in the '70s > and '80s were prehistoric. Funny thing is that an application I helped write > in the early 1980s was still being used by the customer in the mid-1990s (long > story how I found out). It had been ported from the original platform (IBM Yep. 370, timeshare, 4300's.... > S/370) to a SUN workstation and the customer still loved it. Wouldn't > surprise me if they aren't still using it. After all, they still fly > B-52s that are even older. >> But real books don't have that 'search' box up at the top... > <SNIP> > Agree with one of the other responders about that's what the index is for. > One of my "tests" for a book on the subject is to go to the index and > see how easy it is to find the answers to some of the questions I have > that have moved me to buy a book on the subject. Reminds me of the *only* O'Reilly book I didn't like: I think it was Larry's original book on Perl - the index was *dreadful*, couldn't find anything. mark