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From: rdippold@maui.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Borland C++ 2.0
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.202449.25990@qualcomm.com>
Date: 21 Feb 91 20:24:49 GMT
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In article <1991Feb21.055129.13472@athena.mit.edu> mmshah@athena.mit.edu (Milan M Shah) writes:
>>(havn't decided which yet).  Why??  After all those years?  Cuz MSC
>>decided to go almost totally on line documentation.  WHAT A WASTE!  Way
>>to go Microsoft!  Have you ever heard of refering to the docs WHILE
>>programming?  Oh that's right, you can do all that in PWB.  WHO THE HELL
>
>Yes! Sorry if this is wasting bw, but maybe enough noise will knock some grey
>into some skulls at MS. Online docs may be nifty neato, but only as a
>compliment to printed docs. Also, how about including printed docs on HOW TO
>USE QUICK HELP? It really does no good to have instructions on how to use
>quickhelp by including it within quickhelp. My most recent battle - I needed to

Actually, I think they're trying to grab more money from us...  By providing
completely inadequate documentation with their products (and this is not
limited to MSC, check out such dogs as the W4W docs), they force you to go out
and buy their Microsoft Press books on the damn thing.  So they save themselves
money on the software package, and they prop up their MS Press.

"We don't care.  We don't have to.  We're MicroSoft."
			[with app. to Lilly Tomlin...]