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- From: papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
- Subject: Re: Why are os/2 manuals so usless?
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:07:30 GMT
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- >I agree that the documentation falls short of being supportive, but (he says,
- >dogding the anti-greeny abuse and cleverly putting his flame retardant to good
- >use) I don't think paper manuals are the way to go. Let's face it - with the
- >amount of text which would be required to document the OS well, we'd all have
- >gargantuan sets of manuals like those Dec provides (and only then for an
- >outrageous fee !)
-
- I am ok with the idea of online manuals. I just think that the OS/2
- ones suck rocks. They do not form a proper hierarchy, the window is
- too small, the "index" search feature is retarded. REXX is similarly
- poorly documented. And sometimes there are factual errors!
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