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From: Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
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Garry Roseman wrote, re. the FAQ:

> I printed it out on my HP LaserJet, bound it in a nice three-ring
> binder, and spent several days reading it constantly.  It still
> sits on the shelf beside me and is invaluable.

Now there's someone who's dedicated!  Even I haven't done that,
and I'm known for printing things out instead of reading them
online.  But I can agree, it's well worth doing if you've got
the facilities to print that much (I hadn't realised it was that
big!), I did the same sort of thing with the Linux documentation.

> I wouldn't know how you could improve it, but you certainly 
> couldn't improve it by subtracting information.

There are things I could wish were done differently in it, which
would make it easier for me, but they would almost certainly
make it harder for other people.  To a large extent it's an
aesthetic issue, because not everyone thinks alike - it sounds
as though your mental processes parallel Eli's more closely
than mine do.

However, with the aid of grep and less (and occasionally vim) I
can usually find what I want in there withing a minute, which
is a lot better than I can manage with some commercial documen-
tation (the MS Visual C++ online help is abyssmal, I've had to
hunt for hours to find things which were neither in a logical 
place nor indexed by links; the Borland one is not very much
better).  Give me a straight text file anyday...

Chris C