Jim,

You are quite free to disagree.

I'm as big an opponent to replicated documentation as I am to replicated code. It's unreliable and hard to maintain. It's not all that hard to click a couple of links to get to the one definitive source of information.

>In these days of electronic "documenatation" it surely is possible to "link" fields so that changes in 1 area can be reflected in other relevant areas. Even if requiring manual review.
>This ideas that duplicate information may not be updated in all places is indeed the excuse for such a practise, but this is decidedly more for the convenience of the document maintainers than for the USERS of such documents.
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>VFP documentation writers were obviously big practitioners of this.