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From: joel@intelisc.UUCP (Joel Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Aggravating manuals
Message-ID: <190@intelisc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 13:48:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: intelisc.190
Posted: Mon Sep 28 13:48:41 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 30-Sep-87 07:16:36 EDT
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Organization: Intel Scientific Computer, Beaverton, OR
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Keywords: demand improvements!
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In article <1651@killer.UUCP> tad@killer.UUCP (Tad Marko) writes:
>
>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 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? 

I believe their main reason for softbounding their manuals was
copy protection.  They are much harder to send through a Xerox machine.
Their software is not copy protected.   You are just buying the manuals,
the software is free. :-)

I neither support or condemn this practice.


Joel Clark

joel@isc.intel.com     or    tektronix!ogcvax!intelisc!joel

I do not represent any company in any way involved with  Pascal.
My employer has no knowledge of my statements.