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- From: "J. Philip Miller" <phil@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU>
- Subject: MY 2-cents re: SAS Manuals On-Line (fwd)
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- Margie Gurwit <CCMARGIE@MIZZOU1.BITNET> writes:
- >
- > I also agree with Deb Cannon that in order to answer many questions you
- > have to get out all of your SAS manauals! I don't see why SAS can't
- > write consice explainations so we don't have to go through all the books
- > to find that key piece of information we are looking for.
- >
- The folks in the Publications Department are always open to specific
- suggestions. In addition SAS Institute is interested in user authored books
- and they will publish or if published by someone else, they will sell.
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- Writing documentation is hard, hard work.
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- -phil
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