CompuServe Thread

Frank, One of my clients has a "science and engineering encyclopedia" of some sort from McGraw-Hill. I've seen it in a price list for about $400 or $500, and I think it's a 2-volume set. I wasn't very impressed with it, but I only played with it for a couple or three minutes, so I probably didn't get a very good picture. I'd definitely want to try before I bought it. Bookshelf runs off Microsoft's MSLIB software, which can allegedly be set up as a TSR. I haven't tried it, so I don't know how practical it is (my fax board software runs as a TSR, too. But, since it uses something like 270K, I don't consider it very practical…). You should definitely check into whether it'll be happy being networked. I would assume so: after all, it's not likely to open the CD for output <g>. I expected to be more pleased with the Toolworks Desk Reference than I am, mostly because it has the New York Public Library Desk Reference on it. But I've found the software kind of clunky and counter-intuitive. I generally find myself using Bookshelf if it's for something where they overlap. Ran