RE: How much do people need to be told in documentation?

Subject: RE: How much do people need to be told in documentation?
From: Amy Hendrix <amych -at- mindspring -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 21:58:48 -0400

At 10:51 AM 9/17/2001 -0700, you wrote:

Of course, this only merited a disclaimer in the front of our manuals, "If
you do not know how to use Microsoft Windows, please refer to your Microsoft
Windows documentation or consult your system administrator."

Of course, if you're the sysadmin *and* you're writing the docs, you don't get to squirm out of it quite so easily...


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References:
How much do people need to be told in documentation?: From: Hart, Geoff
RE: How much do people need to be told in documentation?: From: Jason Deal

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