RE: Most illogical documentation

Subject: RE: Most illogical documentation
From: "Al Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:07:30 -0400

Ladonna Weeks wrote:
>
> How about in the early days of floppy disks when a several step
> installation procedure was written on the diskette label (and
> therefore inaccessible when the disk was in the drive)?
>

It's no worse than discovering the only copy of the serial number is on the
CD I the CD-ROM drive.

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References:
RE: Most illogical documentation: From: Ladonna Weeks
Re: Most illogical documentation: From: Pro TechWriter

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