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From: thacher@renbourn.unx.sas.com (Clarke Thacher)
Subject: Re: Funny Technical Documentation (was Re: Funny manpage typo)
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In article <1sop52$t7p@gondor.sdsu.edu> masc0982@ucsnews.sdsu.edu (Stewart Stremler) writes:
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> [snip]
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>Ah, yes, Prime documentation. Awesome stuff. Does anyone remember what the
>silly poem in _The New User's Guide to Editor and Runoff_ was?  

Well since you asked:

"The purpose of this user guide ..."

The purpose of this user guide:
We have endeavoured to provide
Clear explainations, amplified 
  By ample demonstrations.

Which show how easily you may
Use Prime computers every day
To help in each and every way
  With office occupations.

You'll edit and runoff reports 
and then learn how tho do all sorts
Of letters,  files,  and later thoughts
  Of alphabetizations.

This information is all here:
It's organized and very clear.
For further questions, check the rear
  Just read the ref'rence sections.

You'll never more need be afraid
For in this book we have displayed
Computers as your friend and aid
  Goodbye to tripidations.

*"To be sung to the tune of "How beautifully Blue The Sky",
from the Pirates of Penzance by W.S. Gilbert and A. Sullivan.

(all typos are my own)

The author of the manual was Daniel Dern.  Thank you Daniel.

-- 
Clarke Thacher        OSRD/HIP Software Developer          SAS Institute, Inc.
thacher@unx.sas.com         (919) 677-8000    SAS Campus Drive, Cary, NC 27513
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension
as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.  It is the middle ground between
light and shadow, between science and superstition. And it lies between the pit
of Man's fears and the summit of his knowledge.  This is the dimension of
imagination -- it is an area which we call software.