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Subject:Re: Manuals by the inch From:Rebecca Phillips <rebecca -at- QRONUS -dot- CO -dot- IL> Date:Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:05:35 +-200
Once I got a request to make the book bigger. The project manager said
"It's got to be _this_ big," indicating a thickness with her fingers.
"The customer sets it next to the competition's book to see who
has more features."
Rebecca M. Phillips
Documentation Manager
Qronus Interactive Ltd.
Automated System Testing
rebecca -at- qronus -dot- co -dot- il
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> re: manuals by the inch:
> I had a meeting yesterday with my project leader to got through some
> documentation that I'd put together. His main comment 'Its too big;
> reduce the page count in half.'piece of software.
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