Hi,
Quote:
User documentation for the database server and the gui client. If your user documentation is online then you may omit this file. However, if the documentation is not online, you must provide either a single plain ASCII (not word processor format) text document, which must be called userguide.txt, or multiple HTML files which must all be accessible from a starting point document that must be called userguide.html.
I always assumed that online meant on the web, and that it was an option for those who wanted
to create a user's manual with screen snapshots.
However, after reading Andrew's comments above, Andrew probably is correct, wherein
"online" means that the help system exists within the application itself. [Of course, to
say that the application has an "online" help system makes little sense to me because
the application can run in local mode, but then again, Sun's instructions rarely make
sense to me.]
But, as usual, does anyone really know? Since no one appears to know with certainty,
Andrew is probably also correct in ascertaining that to put the user's guide on the
web increases one's risk of failure or of losing points.
The only reason that I decided not to put my user documentation on the web, is
because it is always possible that the "web may go down", then how would the
examiner read my manual. So, I felt it safer to submit everything directly to
the examiner, even if I had a choice to put the user's manual on the web. Also,
the user interfaces are not that complicated, and I figured they could just as
easily be described using plain text as with pictures.
Good luck on your exam, and let us know how this issue resolved itself.
Thanks,
Javini Javono