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Re: Pgm to increase point size
- Subject: Re: Pgm to increase point size
- From: Phil Smith phil@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 07:39:40 -0500 (EST)
In a message dated 97-03-31 05:54:45 EST, Harry B. writes:
>
> ≪ Is there any way you could document all this stuff?!! Seems like we peons
> are working with only half the power of Xy4. ≫
>
> I'd love to if: (1) I had the time; (2) I could be sure what *wasn't*
> documented. I suspect that a lot of this stuff is in the manuals somewhere,
> but I also admit that we were developing new commands on the fly as we needed
> them, sometimes right up to ship date. Problem is, sometimes I don't know
> what I know until somebody asks!
>
> Aside: I don't know who did the original docs for III+; I do know the woman
> who headed up the doc effort for Signature/Xy4/XyW. She is a skilled,
> intelligent woman who was asked to do too much with too few resources on a
> too-tight schedule. I've seen, read, and even indexed lots of other
> documentation (Lotus, Symantec, etc.), and XY4 isn't as bad as some.
>
> Tim Baehr
> tbaehr@xxxxxxxx
>
I'm sure Xy4's documentation isn't bad at all. My earlier comment was
meant to point up how GOOD Xy3's was. Xy4's documentation is, as far as
I am concerned, #2 on the list, behind excellent Xy3's and ahead of all
other documentation.
Phil Smith
Columbia Music Company