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Subject:RTFM! From:Steve Fouts <sfouts -at- ELLISON -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 16 Mar 1994 14:49:51 CST
|} Andreas Ramos says:
|}
|} And we all know that the day that the
|} software houses do a study and find out the truth: that NOBODY
|} reads the manuals, then we're all going to be history.
|}
Karla McMaster replies:
|} I beg to differ..._I_ read the manuals. I also use help functions. Am I that
|} strange?
|}
No, every company needs at least one so that all the others who don't
can ask them where the `any' key is.
Then they say, ``how do you know all of this stuff?''
Then you say, ``RTFM!''
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