Re: The holidays are over...

Iain Sinclair (axolotl@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au)
Thu, 11 May 1995 20:47:33 +1000 (EST)

>> Tom has requested that a section on Miranda be included... he said Iain's
>> introduction would be perfectly acceptable for this.
>
>I'm re-editing it as we speak... I might just end up having a disclaimer
>saying "There are a couple of errors in this chapter. We leave it as a
>exercise to the reader to find them." I haven't had a chance to actually
>check the miranda myself, and couldn't spot any errors with a cursory
>glance through, but I've been informed there are a couple. The same goes
>for the bin/sh chapter. I'll get on it this weekend.

Please don't even think about editing something I wrote, and publishing
it without my 100% approval. If I was working some shitty job as a
"technical writer", as rejects from computing science degrees often
do, I am sure I would not care. Any 12-year-old can teach English or
write some blather about UNIX fundamentals, especially if they do not
have a deep knowledge to complicate things. In fact, I gather
that this is what some former contributors to TFM did recently, and
their clients were stupid enough to pay them for it. This is just
one example of how people can be manipulated into paying for the most
worthless tripe.

(But I digress. Just make sure you email me the "edited" version, pointing
out the changes, before going any further.. thanks.)

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 (C) Iain Sinclair    c/- axolotl@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au