>Here's a thought....
>Almost every computer book worth it's price now comes with a disk of some kind...
>Why not put an Exhaustive index on the disk and let us search that..."I know he talked about randomness of _____, I just can't remember the exact word he used. I know he said it was random something....maybe if I search for random..."
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>Just a random thought... :-)
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>Or better yet...Hyper-text the index...or ...Or better yet, include the book as a read-only document on the CD.
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>It's not like the tools to do such trivial things don't exist! Even if they didn't exist, which of us couldn't make a suitable tool before lunch?
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>Are there any other honets nests out there to stir up?
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>JUST don't delay the books to add these things this time!

Be careful what you ask for. The second most useless index I ever used was in the visual Maxframe Professional's documentation. This index was obviously created automatically with a text search tool, and the result was an index with so much information as to be useless. For example, look up something like "Form Manager" and you'll find:

Form Manager 9,11,13,16,22,31,32,33,35,61,64,70

Great. I might as well just flip through and hope I stumble onto what I am asking for.