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Subject:Re: A NEW TOPIC (you can read this) From:nancy ott <ott -at- ANSOFT -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 29 Apr 1993 10:16:46 EDT
> > Above all, don't trivialize your job -- the user manuals are as much a
> > part of the product as the product itself.
> Here the writer has unknowingly fallen into the trap! The software (or
> whatever) is _not_ "the product itself." It's the software.
Oops! You're right. I should have said "the user manuals are as much
a part of the product as the software/hardware." See how pernicious
this attitude is???
> -Fred Jacobson
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