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From: toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Aggravating manuals
Message-ID: <2700@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 11:41:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 28 11:41:56 1987
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <1651@killer.UUCP> tad@killer.UUCP (Tad Marko) writes:
>** 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.  [...]
>Borland has a bad habit of softbinding manuals, [...]
>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.  [...]

It could easily be more than a cost issue.  I always thought the reason
for the bound manuals was that it is a form of copy protection.  Lets
face it, loose sheets of paper can be easily fed into a copy machine,
while copying that Turbo manual will take a lot of time -- might as well 
just buy another copy!

If you want to go to the trouble, you can sand or saw off the book's 
spine, and since all these manuals have "perfect bindings" all the pages
will neatly come apart.  Now just three-hole punch them and put it in
a binder.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM