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Subject:Re: Definitions v. Glossary From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:15:05 -0800
At 12:52 PM 12/3/96 -0500, Mike Dean wrote:
>I have a list of terms that apply either to our applications or to
>Windows terms that our users may have a limited understanding of. These
>are appended to my help files. They started life as a list of
>definitions, but it looks more like a glossary to me now.
There's a difference?
IMHO, I avoid that definitions of Windows terms these days. Once upon a time
you had to worry about users not knowing Windows terms, but now?
--Wayne Douglass
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