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Subject:Re: Version Release Notes From:joanne grey <j -dot- grey -at- WORLDNET -dot- ATT -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 23 Jan 1997 18:27:11 -0800
Nostradamus predicted that Rebecca Phillips would write:
> For those of you who write version release notes, do you refer back to
> the parts of the manual affected in the release notes themselves? Do
> customers find this helpful? Distracting? Do you think it's a good idea?
We never refer to chapters or pages in the original document in a
release note. Enhancements are discussed at whatever length is
neccessary, but we don't send the user back to the manual. We *do*
refer to them in Publication Notes - where we can state that the
information on page xx needed clarification, or something along those
lines, and in read.me files.
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Joanne Grey Senior Technical Writer
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