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Subject:Re: Sam Clemens is dead From:Bob Handlin 1331 <BHandlin -at- CHIPCOM -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 5 Oct 1994 11:54:00 PDT
Bonnie J. Graham says:
" No single book on [insert name of subject area here] is ever going to give
you
the Whole Picture of how to use or do anything complex."
I'd add to this that one of the true joys of tech writing is getting to know
the product and the user well enough that you start documenting some if the
interesting ways they figure out for using the product. Particular if the
devlopers had no idea the "you could do that."
