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Subject:Re: What sayest me... on Worthless TC Degrees From:iain -at- hairydog -dot- co -dot- uk (Iain Harrison) To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Sat, 25 Mar 2000 21:08 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
> An index is only that useful when the content of the
> book itself is so bad that it doesn't make sense.
Utter rubbish!
You'd have to read the entire document to find what you need without an
index.
An index tells you where to fond references to a specified word or topic.
A ToC shows the arrangement of the book.
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Iain
iain -at- hairydog -dot- co -dot- uk
iainh -at- cix -dot- co -dot- uk
