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Unless the changes were exceedingly well documented and I could retrieve any
earlier version as quickly as the latest revision, I would be very unhappy
if I was asked to use a manual which changed between accesses.
If I had obeyed a set of instructions, something nasty had happened and my
boss (or a court of inquiry) was trying to find out why, I hate what would
be said about a manual that changed without warning.
David (the old-fashioned paper preferrer) Ibbetson
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