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- From: chris@cad.gatech.edu (Chris McClellen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Opinion: What IBM should change in OS/2
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 13:11:55 -0500
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
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- Those are some good suggestions. I wish IBM would supply BETTER documentation
- WITH OS/2. I hate the online reference. You basically only get to search
- for topics you want help on. Now, the REXX information thing is good,
- but the rest of them are disjointed. I would like to see printed
- manuals distributed with OS/2, that are in a clear format.
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- One thing that annoys me about OS/2 is that I do not know all of the
- settings that can be put in config.sys, and that I dont know what alot
- of the utilities, and files are. I try to look them up in all
- the references, and they don't exist.
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- I would like to know all the capabilities of the system without having
- to order Redbooks. Hell, DOS came with a manual. I know OS/2 would
- come with several, but so what? One problem I had, and I am sure people
- do have with it, is that when I go to program OS/2 with a PD compiler,
- I end up writing 32bit DOS apps, because I dont know what the system
- can exactly offer me. I know alot more now than I did when I first
- got 2.0, but still... I expect good documentation to come with the OS.
- If they would put togther some manuals that are in arranged in
- an organized fashion, people could know the true power of OS/2.
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- Untilk that day, I have to get redbooks, etc, to read about OS/2
- to see what it can do for me, etc, when those kinds of books should have
- come with the OS. Its really annoying to learn little facts about OS2
- that arent in the online ref., etc, from other people, when I should
- have been able to read some manuals and know it. The online ref
- manual is not in a clear format either. But, I prefer printed material
- to sitting on my computer trying to make sense of the format that
- they presented the stuff.
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