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From: dick@plx.UUCP (Dick Flanagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Aggravating manuals
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Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 17:42:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 29 17:42:50 1987
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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.  [...]

I agree!  Someone at Borland (a long time ago) told me that the Turbo
Pascal manuals were originally softbound to make them more difficult 
to xerox ('scuse me, that should have been ". . . to Xerox(tm) *8-)

Anyway, take your miserable soft-bound MASM 5.0 manual to one of the
photocopy shops that sprout up around college campuses everywhere.
For a couple of bucks they will neatly slice off the binding, punch
the approprite row of little rectangular holes, and then put on one
of those plastic spiral bindings.  Voila!  They lie flat and spit in
the eye of those at MS and Borland who think we have to put up with 
whatever crap they toss our way!
-- 
Dick Flanagan, W6OLD                          I'll take a drug test when
UUCP:  ...!ucbvax!sun!plx!dick                Reagan takes an IQ test.
GEnie: FLANAGAN