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To those who were discussing the word "appears" in your documentation
for something the computer does, I have a question.
In the mainframe (MVS) world, a file/member is located within a
particular data set (like a directory on unix/dos).
How do you say where the member is located?
Our engineers here like to say the following:
The XXXXX member appears withing the YYYYY data set.
I have a problem with the "appears." In my mind, the member doesn't
"appear" there - it *IS* there.
How do you handle this wording?
Thanks for any suggestions!
kat
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Kathleen Nosbisch Netwise, Inc.
Technical Writer 2477 55th Street
kat -at- netwise -dot- com Boulder, Colorado 80301
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