[Firebird-docs] Re: Three Questions

[Andy C. <an...@ad...>]

> > Connections
> > SQL Language
> > The isql tool

> Just write about it, and indicate in parenthesis things that you want =
to be
> added but are not familiar with. If I know about it, I'll write about =
it or
> if not, somebody else will.

I shall do so. I will also send you preliminary versions; I welcome your =
comments, suggestions, and guidance. I won't worry about format for now; =
you can probably read anything I can create and, worse comes to worse, =
you can cut and paste.

> By the way, have you downloaded the 10mb references of Interbase?

If you are referring to the Beta Documentation, I downloaded that last =
autumn when I started with Open Source Interbase. IMHO it is reasonably =
complete and well written, but it suffers from copyright restrictions =
and lack of a global search. When it's incorrect there's no legal way to =
fix it. Ann is supposed to be putting the updated unreleasable version =
where I can download it so that I can learn. I also have all the HLP =
files from the autumn download of InterBase (for reference, not for =
copying).

> What ever we do, we should be careful NOT to copy anything from this,
> otherwise, all our efforts will go to waste since the community won't =
be
> able to freely use it.
No mechanical copying. No deliberate mental copying. Ideas are =
necessary. For example, AFAIK, Borland owns copyright on the only =
documents that say what the Firebird SQL syntax is. ANYONE who writes =
down what Firebird accepts for the CREATE TABLE command syntax must have =
learned it from Borland copyrighted material, because it does not exist =
anywhere else.

> Thanks for you help. Let's get going.
Yo!

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