Murray Lesser wrote to Will Honea on 09-18-1999

ML>     My attitude toward on-line documentation is unchanged:  Too
ML> much information is omitted for it to be useful for much of
ML> anything, and what information is present should be verified by test
ML> before drawing any conclusions from it.  (Note:  My experience to
ML> date indicates that this sad state of on-line documentation is not
ML> limited to that furnished by IBM; I have on-line documentation that
ML> came with commercial products produced by non-IBM sources that are
ML> even worse.  One virtue of IBM desktop software products is that
ML> hard-copy documentation can usually be obtained if one is willing to
ML> pay for it.)

Even the hard-copy versions are shooting at a moving target these
days.  FP11 introduced some spindown functions in the IDE drivers that
caused a lot of grief until one of the Austin group posted the info
needed to 'fix' the fix - a new, totally undocumented (outside the
developers) feature.

I appreciate the info you weeded out.  It's great for memory
constrained systems although lately my solution has been to just throw
more memory at it. 
 
Will Honea 
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