Re: Clarity or Talking Down?

Subject: Re: Clarity or Talking Down?
From: "Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL>
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 09:06:47 -0700

Kevin,

I think that you are correct and justified in using the word "type" to
indicate when a command is supposed to be typed.

Here's an idea that may help your position. Browse through some of the
manufacturer's user guides for the programming applications that the
programmers use. I bet that you will find those manuals--written
specifically for programmers--also use "type" as you describe.

In a quick search around my office, I found that usage in the user
guides for Borland Delphi, MS Visual Basic, and MS SQL Server.


>Bev Parks
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