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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Opinion: What IBM should change in OS/2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.182210.20790@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 18:22:10 GMT
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <93001.171047UD092096@NDSUVM1.BITNET> Barry Pederson <UD092096@NDSUVM1.BITNET> writes:
- >Change the packaging of the documentation that comes with OS/2:
- > I really really really..... hate opening up OS/2 (and many other IBM
- > software packages) to find dozens of separate little booklets, cards,
- > flyers, etc. License information, proof of license, multi-lingual license
- > information, index to licenses.... Guides to this, that and the other
- > thing. Cards for registration, cards for comments, cards to get more
- > cards.
- > Does every department at IBM get to print their own little scrap for
- > inclusion in the box? I think it would be much better to put everything
- > in one or two manuals, like with DOS manuals. At least then, you wouldn't
- > have to worry about missing one crucial scrap that tells you what you want
- > to know.
- > One comprehensive manual ... One comprehensive index ... a good thing
-
- According to what I've heard, OS/2 2.1 will contain a nice, real
- manual.
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