I worked on a project in the early 90s to figure out a way to distribute updated docs along with software updates. At the time, the software updates were shippe

I worked on a project in the early 90s to figure out a way to distribute updated docs along with software updates. At the time, the software updates were shipped on CD, etc. We could ship the docs in WordPerfect AND Word formats. But that wasn't very palatable. We talked with WordPerfect about this portable document format thing they were working on (Envoy?). And we talked to Adobe about some sort of similar thing they had in mind. We could ship the document reader for Mac and Windows on the CD with the docs. We also explored the idea of perhaps putting the docs as postscript files on an internet server with a ghostscript app and some instructions on how to ftp the files or something. That all seemed so close to right, but not quite feasible. We weren't even considering the internet for software distribution. It was all an idea to provide our customers the latest and greatest documentation. But the internet was not established enough to let us refer customers there for practical use. And ghostscript was some hokey concept from people in some GNU movement or something and wasn't close to production quality. Three years later we lived in a completely different world.