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Subject:Re: Respect or no/Manuals by the inch From:Barry Lockard <barry -at- BGS -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 11 Sep 1996 10:20:37 -0400
Another approach is to give him a copy printed in 4 point text.
>David Somers writes:
>> re: manuals by the inch:
>> I had a meeting yesterday with my project leader to got through some
>> documentation that I'd put together. His main comment 'Its too big;
>> reduce the page count in half.'
>After a while, one develops glib responses for such things. Mine
>is, 'Sure. Just tell me which half of the product you don't want
>the users to be able to use.'
> -- Robert
Barry
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