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Subject:RE: Finding errors in manuals From:"David Neeley" <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 18 May 2007 07:38:05 -0500
My fave is the Mac, where to eject a removable disk we "throw it in the
trash."
I can't tell you my frustration when I first encountered a Mac and tried to
liberate a floppy disk...
david
Connie Giordano wrote:=20
=20
> I literally just came across this in a manual I'm editing right now:
>=20
> "Press <ENTER> to exit:" Hope that makes you feel better ;-)
Well, it sure looks funny, but it's not necessarily _wrong_.=20
After all, we Windows users click Start to quit. ;-)
Richard
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