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four-color glossies: n. 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-color 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-color-glossy manuals are never useful for solving
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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