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Subject:Re: Second Oldest Profession? From:Becca Price <rp51 -at- CHRYSLER -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 23 Jul 1997 10:53:08 -0400
Hey, we just document the procedure; we can't guarantee the
product will work. Take it up with Engineering. <g>
-becca
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From: Cramer, Kim
I think technical writing goes back much further than Gutenberg. For
example, the Egyptian Book of the Dead provides instructions on how to
perform the procedures necessary to achieve immortality.
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Which just goes to show you that even though a technical writer may be
great, he can't make the application bug-free.
My nomination for technical writing in antiquity: God's instructions to
Noah in Genesis 6.
Regards,
John Wilcox, Documentation Specialist
Timberlands Information Services
Weyerhaeuser, WWC 2E2
Tacoma, WA 98477-0001 USA
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