Charles Mills wrote: >I once had an all-out war (I won! I was the president!) with a tech writer who >insisted that the
>documentation should spell out Multiple Virtual Systems on the first reference >to MVS (in technical >documentation for a hardcore mainframe product). My position was that it made >us look like idiots. Might have been the same writer who we had to order to STOP changing "filename" to "file name" and "userid" to "user identifier" in VM documentation. Know your audience! However, I would have stopped yours even earlier on the grounds that MVS stands for "Multiple Virtual Storage", not ".Systems". Just sayin'. ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
