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From: sytek@tekgen.TEK.COM (Mike Ewan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Aggravating manuals
Message-ID: <1796@tekgen.TEK.COM>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 18:34:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekgen.1796
Posted: Mon Sep 28 18:34:12 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 30-Sep-87 06:51:44 EDT
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: demand improvements!
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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.
> ...
>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.  

The way I figure it, the softbound manuals are an insidious copy protection
scheme.  As hard to hold open as they are, they are even harder to run 
through a copy machine.  And who wants a compiler without documentation.

Anyway, I agree that it is a terrible pain to try and use one of those manuals
while developing code.  I've been tempted to dismember either the MASM or
Turboc manuals many times.

Mike Ewan
Tektronix Inc.

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