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Subject:Re: Technical writing - off site From:"Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l Date:Tue, 9 Sep 2003 10:41:55 -0400
Robert Plamondon wrote:
> and have a lot of system administration experience as well, so it's
possible
> to dump the engineering spec on my desk and run
They give you *specs* ?? Now that's what I call hand-holding! :-) I
sometimes get jobs where they have been coding like hell for six months,
then the boss (or a customer) suddenly decides they need a spec.