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- From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are os/2 manuals so usless?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.072551.6055@digi.lonestar.org>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 07:25:51 GMT
- References: <baloo.727213868@mik.uky.edu> <1993Jan20.100717.18052@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <1993Jan20.223633.21866@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan20.223633.21866@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In any event, I'm hearing that a "real" manual will be included in the
- >2.1 shrinkwrap. What appears to be a draft of the manual is on the
- >2.1 beta CD-ROM.
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- I purchased a hardcopy of the 2.0 GA Command Reference manual (cost me nearly
- $40!). It is quite a bit easier to read and look up information in the
- hardcopy version than in the on-line version, this is for certain. (I grew
- quite tired of chasing one reference after another, sometimes going in
- circles, looking for the DETAILED information I needed, when I used the
- on-line version!)
-
- However, the Command Reference manual is skimpy, to say the least. It is the
- place to look up the syntax of a command you already know you want to use for
- a particular purpose. But don't expect to find any detailed technical
- discussion of why and how you might want to use any of the commands! And
- don't expect to find many non-trivial examples of how to use the command.
- Most commands have NO examples. IBM gets a D- here on user documentation.
-
- User documentation is one of the BIGGEST problems with OS/2! Without
- excellent user documentation which provides sufficient technical information
- to isolate, diagnose, and fix most end user problems, OS/2 will fail.
-
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