Re[4]: User guide?

[Don Smith <dsmith -at- ACCESSBEYOND -dot- COM>]

     Why not "Operator Manual"?


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Subject: Re: Re[2]: User guide?
Author:  Mike Collier - SSG <MikeCol -at- SBSERVICES -dot- COM> at INTERNET
Date:    2/28/97 3:28 PM


Then why do we see "Operator's Manual", and not "Operator Manual" ?
What makes "User's Manual" less preferable?
>
>     A fellow tech writer, that shares an office with me, uses "User
>     Manual" on her manuals for user's. I suppose one could consider the
>     person holding the manual for use is the user. Thus the user manual.
>
>     MOO
>
>     Don

>Michael Collier
>mikecol -at- sbservices -dot- com
>SOFTBANK Services Group
>Buffalo, NY

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