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By: David L Gent       
Date: Feb 11,2007 at 00:14
In Response to: [Docs] ZTW.HLP 1.1 (John Gruener)

I completely understand your point about the desirability of factual rather than stylistic improvements and Steve did introduce his change as a general improvement - but isn't his final paragraph a factual change?

It reads:
"The directory highlighted at startup is by default that directory containing
ZtreeWin, but this can be changed by various methods discussed in section 3"
.

It's opposed to the original 3rd paragraph:
"When you start ZTreeWin, the Directory
Window is active and the highlight bar is at the Root directory of the disk"
.

I'm not qualified to judge between the two, but they can't both be true. I thought his other changes were designed to facilitate this key change.

Sorry, not meaning to create more work.

David

> It's probably not too late for correction of errors, but this appears to
> simply be a "better expressed" version of what it already says.

> Steve, there is probably no end to alternate ways of saying things that
> you and others can come up with. Your version is an improvement, but it
> took me 45 minutes to copy, paste, compare, read and figure out what you
> are trying to improve, only to find there is really nothing substantially
> new.

> Your improved version is fine, and if Kim wants to incorporate it then
> that's his choice. But it would need some cleanup first. For example:

> Third paragraph needs the word "key" at the end.
> Fourth paragraph needs a "the" before "current
> directory".
> The "t" in the final ZtreeWin should be capitalized.
> Last sentence needs a period.

> When I submit Help File changes to Kim I make every effort to be sure
> there are no grammatical or punctuation errors, so he does not have to
> clean up my work. I'm not claiming I do not make such errors, but you have
> at least four of them in the few lines you changed or moved in this small
> section.

> I don't want to appear ungrateful for your effort, and I'm certainly not
> speaking for Kim here, but it will be difficult for me to find the time to
> review more "improvements" submitted like this in the relatively
> short time we have before release. I doubt Kim has any more time for it
> than I do, but I'll let him speak for himself on that point.

> As always though, if you or others find factual errors or omissions in the
> file, please let us know.

> - John

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