-=> Quoting Don Bomer to Keith Sayers <=-
 DB> ...... I would not have taken that
 DB> contract unless my family was starving :-)
      Well not quite starving, but after several weeks with nothing,
anything was better!
 DB> 1-56205-194-6   INSIDE ACCESS 1.1 SPECIAL ED.
 DB> 1-56529-323-6   USING ACCESS 1.1 FOR WINDOWS, SPEC
 DB> 0-67979-158-2   MICROSOFT ACCESS 101 HANDBOOK
 DB> 0-67230-178-4   ACCESS 1.1 DEVELOPERS GUIDE
 DB> Don't know anything about them, I pulled the data from a local
 DB> bookstores database.
       Thanks for the info, I will have alook for them here
 DB> BTW, I found the original Microsoft manuals to be better than some of
 DB> the commercial ones that I bought for V2.
       And I have found the same impression.  There are several _very_ big
books in Canberra bookshops that are more useful as doorstops than as
programming tools, but the difficulty seems to be getting hold of MS own
books.  I have just got Access2 up and running for them and in doing so got
the registration code and a card headed 'Documentation Offer'.  As far as I
can understand this, you fill it in, send it back to MS, they then send you
documentation and bill you, how much is not stated.  Since no government
department here would do that - they must have prices before they will order
- I thought I could be an honest broker by making my own enquiry direct of
MS.  Got an message on my answering machine to phone them, and found that
had to be '9a.m. to 5p.m., Monday to Friday, Australian Eastern Standard
time' - and not even a facility for leaving a message back.  Geez!  What
sort of service standard do you get in the States?  Just been reading that
joke in the Excel echo about the helicopter in Seattle.  Somehow I feel a
bit like that!
 DB> There are a LOT of helpful experts on the UseNet NewsGroups for
 DB> Access.  Give them a try...
       I will if I get that far, but the contract is due to end shortly -
and we are still on Access1!
... If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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