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Subject:RE: Names for elements on DOS Screen From:Salan Pazurik <spazurik -at- wencomine -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:46:36 -0800
The Manual of Style only seems to cover Windows applications, not DOS ones.
I don't have a copy of a really old Manual of Style.
I'm thinking about calling
- the items you can set: "options" or "fields"
- the settings themselves: "values" or "settings"
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