>Years ago, Que published a basic DOS guide which assumed that the reader already knew how to use EDLIN. It doesn't sound like they've gotten a clue since then.
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>A friend of mine authored a couple of chapters for one of their books about networking. They demanded that he re-write everything as a sequence of numbered steps, no matter how complicated the decision tree might be. It seemed to my friend that Que was strongly oriented to the novice audience and couldn't really conceive of any other.

I'm not concerned about the target audience insofar as I am concerned that writing what they wrote about VFP in a book which, presumably, will have wide readership is irresponsible to the point of malice. This book alone will probably cause some people to not look at VFP as part of a c/s solution because, according to Que, VFP doesn't work and play well with others (to paraphrase). A simple once over technical edit of the book by people even reasonably familiar with the Visual Studio toolset would have nipped this one.