At 11:26 AM -0700 9/8/01, Mark Sottilaro wrote: >Glib and friendly manuals. I, for one, hate them. I, for two, agree with you. I especially hate the ones that use a lot of "dudelish" vocabulary. When I write technical documentation I assume the reader has a college degree and possibly two kids and a mortgage. If I'm wrong about that, and the reader is actually a 15-year-old high school dropout, then I'm still doing my part by exposing him/her to standard English. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz