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Re: MD issues (again...)

Subject: Re: MD issues (again...)
From: Walter Knapp <>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:08:41 -0400
Syd Curtis wrote:
> 
>>From: Walter Knapp <>
>>Reply-To: 
> 
> 
>>With modern manuals you often have to read between the lines, or engage
>>in strange rituals to sort things out. Being a mac person I'm used to
>>learning things without reading manuals, but know when to go look
>>something up too.
>>
>>Walt
> 
> 
> You mean to say Mac's actually have manuals!  :-)
> 
> Syd

They are those things you throw back in the box when you get out the 
software disk. The thick things in shrinkwrap ;-)

Or that help menu item deliberately designed to be unhelpful and contain 
no useful info.

With the original mac OS you can pretty much do without manuals. Though 
they are working hard with OSX to force us to read the manuals. Not that 
it helps all that much.

Walt




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