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I sent something to the poster directly and then deleted the message and
address. Naturally, after doing so, I found a reference that might have
been the mythical IBM manual. "Object-Oriented Interface Design IBM Common
User Access Guidelines" published by QUE, ISBN 1-56529-170-0. I just
skimmed it, but it appeared to be fairly comprehensive so might provide a
good starting point.
Catherine Janzen
CBSI
cjanzen -at- clrmnt -dot- com