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At 2:48 PM -0400 5/29/00, Hart, Geoff wrote:
>Ah, how soon the young forget! Why in my day, the evils of MS-DOS and the
>struggles of valiant writers against it were the stuff of legend... <gdr>
>
Let's not forget mainframes and such (UN*X, MVS, PR1MOS, etc. ;-)
>[....] most of us haven't used a command
>line in so long that we've forgotten how to write about them from the user's
>perspective. That means you'll have to take some time refamiliarizing
>yourself with the concept and what that type of user interface means to the
>user.
Lesson one; learned as soon as the students get into the computer lab they
just spent $Cubic_LabFees on:
Never release instructions telling the user to "Type 'Return'..." because
at least half will type 'R E T U R N' ....
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