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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:18 Aug 2000 at 08:30:43
Subject:Re: Amiga Piracy

John Marchant said,

>>I personally get annoyed with guide files and on line help documents.

> So do I. I like to convert them to ascii, except the links or page
> numbers become useless.

As does any online help provided by the program.

> With a plain text doc I can use a word
> search in CygnusEd and scroll rapidly through the text.

Use SearchGuide to add a search button to every guide file. It makes
them much nicer to use.

> Online 'help' is one of the many reasons I dislike my PC,

That's just crap help. It's also caused by people confusing help with
documentation. Online help is no substitute for in-depth documentation,
they should complement each other.

Neil


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