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From: woan@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Aggravating manuals
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Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 15:24:36 EDT
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In article <453@mit-caf.UUCP> parris@mit-caf.UUCP (Patrice Parris) writes:
>Granted that the materials to make 3-ring binders is more expensive than 
>that to make the current crop of bound manuals, the cost of the former 
>(or formah, as we say around here) can be reduced even further.  The 
>concensus seems to be that the additional labor is the major part of the 
>difference.  Why not have the machines print the pages, stack them in order, 
>place them on top of the binder and shrink wrap the whole package.  Voila, 
>no humans!  If you can buy a computer and use it, you can unwrap shrink wrap 
>and place the pages in the binder.

I think that IBM and many other major companies have been doing this for years,
so the major argument that remains is the the binders cost a little extra and
"perfect binding" serves as a form of copy protection...



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