1. Literature created by marketroids that allegedly contains
technical specs but which is in fact as superficial as
possible without being totally content-free. "Forget the
four-colour glossies, give me the tech ref manuals." Often
applied as an indication of superficiality even when the
material is printed on ordinary paper in black and white.
Four-colour-glossy manuals are *never* useful for finding a
problem.
2. [rare] Applied by extension to manual pages that don't
contain enough information to diagnose why the program doesn't
produce the expected or desired output.
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