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From: tad@killer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Aggravating manuals
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Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 17:39:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.1651
Posted: Sat Sep 26 17:39:34 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 22:18:43 EDT
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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** FLAME ON! **

My Micrsoft Macro Assembler 5.0 was the last straw!  For program
documentation, especially compilers, I find that there is nothing more
aggravating than softbound manuals.  One thing that I have always 
liked about Microsoft is their binders.  You can lay the suckers flat
on the desk and have them stay on the right page.  It is a real drag
to be typing an unfamiliar instruction with one hand while struggling
to keep the manual on the right page with the other.  ACK!  Am I the
only one this picky, or are there others who are just as aggravated?
Borland has a bad habit if softbinding manuals, Turbo C, Turbo Pascal
(and most likely the 4.0 release of Turbo Pascal), and Turbo-every-
thing-else, and now apparently Microsoft has caught this disease.

I appreciate these companies' efforts to reduce prices, or at least
maintain present ones, but I am definitly willing to pay a little
extra for binders.  After all, how much *can* they cost?  If there's
anyone else who is aggravated by these, write and complain.  Here's
the addresses for Borland and Microsoft (as I struggle to type with
one hand and hold these @#%$^&* manuals with the other ;-|:

Borland International
4585 Scotts Valley Drive
Scotts Valley, California 95066-9987

Microsoft Corporation
16011 NE 36th Way
box 97017
Redmond, Washington 98073-9717

** flame off **  (Ahhhh, I feel much better now :)

With much relief,
Tad
--
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