Most illogical documentation

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That's when you made a copy of it on the copy machine before you started!
LOL

On 7/2/07, Ladonna Weeks <ladonna.weeks at comtrak.com> wrote:
>
> How about in the early days of floppy disks when a several step
> installation procedure was written on the diskette label (and
> therefore inaccessible when the disk was in the drive)?
>
>
> Ladonna Weeks
> ladonna.weeks at comtrak.com
> 314-895-7674
> cell: 314-210-1652
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Allison [mailto:maker at verizon.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 2:31 PM
> To: techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
> Subject: Most illogical documentation
>
> This seems a Friday-ish topic for tech writers.
>
> What is the most illogical bit of tech writing you've seen?
>
> The earliest, and still one of the best, that I've come across
> was a passage about how to open the box. You could only have
> opened the manual if you had opened the packing box beforehand.
> (Manuals were not handed out like candy by the sales people,
> either -- too expensive. So really, honestly, if you were reading
> that page, you'd already opened the box.)
>
> It even had a picture of the flaps of the box being opened and an
> arrow showing that the stuff had to come UP out of the TOP of the
> box, which is where the flaps were OPEN.
>
> Naturally, I personally have never written anything quite that
> illogical, not even under duress! I swear!
>
> --Nancy
>
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