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Article #151Re: Waffle and "pretty ANSI" screens
From: Phil Ross
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:43
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:43
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sp@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Steve Pershing) writes: > kmcvay@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) writes: > > => In article <L9P3iB2w165w@questor.wimsey.bc.> (Steve Pershing) writes: > => > => It isn't ANSI, or its lack - it's the lack of friendly guidance. I've > => done a lot of work with the 'menu' screens, but they aren't enough. > > The "friendly" guidance should be in the manual(s). You cannot be all > things to all people. No one understands what we have written (or put > into a menu) the same way as someone else. > > The *interested* reader will search around until he/she finds what they > want. As I said before, "if they can't read and ask questions I don't > want them". You're too right. Even the my "Login or HELP:" prompt proves as an intelligence test for some... -- cybapunk@hovel.welly.gen.nz X Phil Ross cybapunk@tornado.welly.gen.nz X Sysop of The Hovel BBS cybapunk@sideways.welly.gen.nz X Author of Lords And Ladies, _THE_ BBS door! [Monday: In Christian countries, the day after the league game.]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!darwin.sura.net!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!tornado!hovel!cybapunk Newsgroups: alt.bbs.waffle Subject: Re: Waffle and "pretty ANSI" screens Message-ID: <NF1sLB1w165w@hovel.welly.gen.nz> From: cybapunk@hovel.welly.gen.nz (Phil Ross) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 18:43:46 GMT References: <8wo5iB2w165w@questor.wimsey.bc.ca> Distribution: World Organization: The Hovel Bulletin Board System Lines: 25