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From: alang@masscomp.UUCP (Alan Groupe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Aggravating manuals
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Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 18:57:39 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 18:57:39 1987
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Keywords: demand improvements!
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Originally, Turbo C was a perfect-bound 8.5x5.5 manual. By taking the manual
into any large printer, you could have the spine sliced off and the manual
punched. Then it would fit into a 6x9 three ring binder (that is a standard
size, although hard to get in larger than 1" rings).

With Turbo C, Borland decided to try to stop this, too, so they printed
the manuals in some "funny" size like 8.5x7. However, being too smart for
themselves, they printed the manuals with very wide margins, which can
easily be cut down to 8.5x5.5, losing nothing but their own ads lnurprne cix!