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Subject:Re: Microsoft rules on navigate vs. explore? From:"Merrick, Tim" <tim -dot- merrick -at- LSIL -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 25 May 1999 15:54:04 -0500
John Posada wrote:
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"Since SUN is UNIX oriented and MS is Windows oriented, be careful that you
don't end of using UNIX specific terminology to describe a Windows concept."
Good point, John. I, too, like to use both books and weigh the advice given
against the requirements of the project at hand. The software we document
comes in various flavors: Solaris, HP-UX, Windows, and DOS.
