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Subject:Re: Sam Clemens From:Romay Jean Sitze <rositze -at- NMSU -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 7 Oct 1994 11:10:49 -0600
Good point.
On Wed, 5 Oct 1994, Kirk Foster wrote:
> Along the same lines as Mark Levinson's when he said:
> "if you can't include it in 1000 pages of nine-point type,
> can you include it in the amount of disk space
> that you have time to fill before the product ships?"
> Structuring the on-line documents to apply to EVERY problem or task
> the user might want to perform would involve a great deal more work.
> There is a reason paper documentation doesn't attempt to do this,
> lack of enough trees.
> Lack of memory has kept this from happening in on-line, but this
> limitation is, IMHO, a good thing.
> On a tangent, hardcopy of some sort, seperate from the program and the
> computer, will always be necessary due to the dreaded "CRASH."
> Some reference material advising users "what to do in case of an
> emergency" must, or at least should, accompany software products.
> To give you a "real life" example of how squimish the lack of hard
copy
> can make just about everyone, try this:
> A recent questionarre asked me if I liked the idea of recieving my
> grades,
> course selections, etc. ONLY on-line.
> One situation should make everyone quiver, the system snafu's
> (power failure, whatever) and you don't have hardcopy to show
> to the cold bureaucratic eye...
> nuff said
> Kirk Foster
> Drexel University
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