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In a Windows 3.1 help file that was also run on Windows 95, I always created
a help topic that could only be found thru the Search approach that built
the large database. (I am about to run out the door and can't remember what
the heck it is actually called). This was my contracting days, just before I
started running my own company.
This help topic included my name and phone number. It was handy the one time
a salaried writer later claimed I didn't write the help file and could not
claim it as my work. All you had to do was do the search and build the large
database, and search on my name. If she wrote it, why would she put my name
in there?
sharon
Sharon Burton-Hardin
Anthrobytes Consulting
909-369-8590
www.anthrobytes.com
Vice-president, Programs of the Inland Empire chapter of the STC
www.iestc.org
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From: "Victoria Camgros" <vcamgros -at- persistence -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Wednesday, 23 January, 2002 9:27 AM
Subject: RE: Anyone Hide Easter Eggs in Docs?
| I've never deliberately included an Easter Egg. However...
|
| Long ago (and far away-er, nevermind), I used to type the callouts for
| illustrations as a part of my job. This was back in the era of Rapidograph
| pens and India ink, MacTac (sticky back film) callouts, and no computers
in
| the biz (she says sagely, nodding her gray head).
|
| Anyway, we were working a tight schedule on a proposal, and several
| callouts in the sketches were completely unreadable. So I typed "blob" for
| them, assuming (since our standards were all-uppercase letters) that these
| blobs would be noticed and corrected.
|
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