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- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: Why are os/2 manuals so usless?
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 12:10:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.121016.12861@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <baloo.727213868@mik.uky.edu> <1993Jan20.100717.18052@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <C16x0J.AAG@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- In article <C16x0J.AAG@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
- >
- > 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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- I think the REXX docs are crippled to make you actually buy them. There are
- words in the online docs referring you to these - purchaseable - books.
-
- Steve
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