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Disappointed to see MRE is PDF, not HTML |
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2005-06-20 14:46:10 |
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Bill Starr
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I am a happy owner of Versions 1 and 3 of Perl CD Bookshelf. I finally decided to purchase a copy of Version 4 in order to have access to Perl Cookbook 2nd edition, Learning Perl Objects, and Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd edition (I already owned the first edition of MRE in hardcopy book form).
I was quite disappointed to find that MRE 2nd edition is in PDF format, not HTML. This is a departure from every other book on these three editions of the Perl CD Bookshelf, and makes it significantly less useful, in my opinion.
One of the features I use extensively on the other CD's is the master index, with links to all books on the CD. The master index on Version 4 does not include any links to MRE 2nd edition. The search engine also does not include any capability to include MRE in its results.
I did not see any mention of this change in the promotional material about Version 4, making this loss feel like somewhat of a bait and switch.
Bill Starr
Mon, 20 Jun 2005, 4:45pm EST
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