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Subject:Re: Re. moving docs entirely online? From:Romay Jean Sitze <rositze -at- NMSU -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 16 Jun 1995 18:02:17 -0600
Wow was this timely. I had just this type of experience last night when
my E-drive hung up and I couldn't access the online info on my CD-ROM to
figure out what the problem was. (I finally got it working by trial and
error.)
On Fri, 16 Jun 1995, Nora Merhar wrote:
> I have another good reason not to use only online help. If the system goes
> down or freezes up, there's no way to access the online help to figure out
> how to restart it, or troubleshoot, or whatever.