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>>The problem is not that it's impossible to do good on-line documentation,
>>but that the flagship products have garbage-scow documentation, and
>>many people cheerfully salute the flag and emulate the garbage scow.
Then Michael wrote:
>Then by this logic --> Document is poor. Document is online. Therefore
>online is a poor documentation medium.
I concluded nothing of the sort. I specifically disclaimed that conclusion
not once, but several times in my posting.
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