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Is there a DOS memory documentation available? (Users)

posted by fritz.mueller Homepage, Munich, Germany, 09.01.2024, 22:21

STOP!
It's always the same - nobody reads the subject!

Writing the help is a pain, there are some problems that happen again and again (and I am working for more than TWO years on this version now):
a) A command has NO documentation - with bad luck even no /? help. So you have to run tests, ask people, and anyhow you decide that your own text is the best. Years later you get a message "How could you forget this?"

b) A command has a documentation that is overlong and it is unable to take EVERYTHING into the help - so you have to reduce yourself to the minimum.
But it is no fun to read 200 pages of documentation for this.

c) A command has a short documentation that explains the most important effects and you can simply overtake it. GREAT!

d) I find a bug and try to report it to the programmer, with good luck I get a response, with bad luck I get none. Some bugs are fixed, some not. In the meantime I feel free enough to write a short sentence into the help why I think that the program is buggy.

e) I get a message that "an ugly picture" hides the whole documentation but
the creator forgets that htmlhelp and amb do not support background pictures,
they are only for usage in internet,

f) I ask the DOS group for giving me a free text, I get one (usually not) - and then the discussion begins - and continues and continues - and nobody remembers to my question. Nothing to say against, but is there anybody who can do the following:

Replace this sentence by this or that sentence so that I can simply overtake it?

No, there seems to be none. At the end I am as clever as before and must try to create my own text and implement all this additional feedback to a mixture. And later people come and say: You forgot this / you forgot that! What nonsense did you write there?

So: Please, please, correct the text but do not start a big discussion that is absolutely useless for me and makes more work than I would have had without asking you. I do not need the last details as only less USERS will understand them, I only need a text that I can simply overtake. Is this so hard to understand?
Sorry, I beg your pardon, but sometimes I am close to give up this project so close to end. Or I will simply remove this problematic texts.

Thanks for reading (and not sending a shitstorm).

Fritz

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