[SunRescue] Speaking of crocks

[James Lockwood]

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:

> ... I spent about an hour on docs.sun.com today, looking for technical doco 
> on my diskless workstation quest, and I came away with two impressions:
> 
> (1)	That is one _slow_ site.

It's got a huge number of users hitting it.  If you have the space, I 
recommend installing the documentation included with Solaris 7.  It 
contains the same information with the same search facility, but will be 
much faster if you're the only one using it.

> (2)	The search engine is useless.
> 
> It was mega-annoying to put in "solaris bootp server setup" and wait a 
> couple of minutes, only to get back 5,000 press releases containing the 
> word "server" but not "bootp."  You'd think those guys could figure out how 
> to give you the documents with _all_ the search words first.

RTFM.  Try searching for "solaris AND bootp AND ...".  They use a 
near-vanilla Dynatext engine so the usual tricks will work.

Dynatext really isn't designed for the number of users that they have
hitting it, unfortunately.  It works fairly well for a small group, though.

-James