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Subject: Documentation Doozies
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Date: Tue, 27-Mar-84 10:29:23 EST
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| Documentation Doozies |

	Does anyone have any gems of documentation that belongs in net.jokes?
Or has anyone started a canonical collection of them?  If not, I will.  Every-
body send me excerpts from your favorite documents and I'll post a canonical
collection.
	Just so you know what I'm talking about, here are three examples:

Four-Dimensional Documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The following quote is from page 4-27 of the MSCP Basic Disk Functions Manual
which is part of the UDA50 Programmers Doc Kit manuals:

	As stated above, the host area of a disk is structured as
	a vector of logical blocks.  From a performance viewpoint,
	however, it is more appropriate to view the host area as
	a four dimensional hyper-cube, the four dimensions being
	cylinder, group, track, and sector.
			.
			.
			.
	Referring to our hyper-cube analogy, the set of potentially
	accessible blocks form a line parallel to the track axis.
	This line moves parallel to the sector axis, wrapping around
	when it reaches the edge of the hyper-cube.

The Sound Of One Pin Spreading
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
From the Pro 350 Pocket Service Guide, p. 49, Step 5 of the instructions
on removing an I/O board from the card cage, comes a new experience in
sound:

 	5.  Turn the handle to the right 90 degrees.  The
	    pin-spreading sound is normal for this type of
	    connector.

Null News
~~~~~~~~~ 
This is from one of the many EDT manuals.  It describes one of the
so-callled nokeypad commands.  What is it?

  (Null)	Moves the cursor the specified number of entities
		This command has no name.  You simply specify the
		entities over which or to which you wish to move.

	Get the idea?  Go to it!
		<_Jym_>

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