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Subject:RE: Alternative to floppy From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:27:05 -0400
Even before, when the customers used a floppy, there were many
alternatives. We just need to describe *one* method to the customer.
It's like when I give you driving directions to my house: I'm only going
to describe one of many possible routes.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Posada
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:18 PM
> To: Dan Goldstein
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Alternative to floppy
>
> It's actually not 'nuff. :-)
>
> Off the top of my head, I can think of 10 ways to store a
> configuration file off-line. Are you going to address every
> single way in the documentation? Unless there is a specific
> one or two ways that MUST be used, how do you include address this.
>
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