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> The argument from some developers in the company is that
> our users are "too sophisticated" to be led through a GUI or
> process from the beginning like this. What they would like
> to see are instructions such as "Load the Toolkit," rather than
> "From the <b>Tools</b> menu, select <b>Load Toolkit</b>,"
> where we assume that the user has played with the GUI and
> figured out how to load the Toolkit by themselves.
