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Kevin, you're very funny. John, I think, based on your response, that you
misunderstand the question I am raising. The question is: what is the
purpose of the exercise? Is this an exercise in learning all of the steps
you could document (painfully demonstrated by a naif's attempt to follow
them) so that you can then begin to cull those instructions that you can
safely assume (through audience analysis) will be understood by the user?
Justin
