four-colour glossies

four-colour glossies

(1)Literature created by marketroids that allegedly containstechnical specs but which is in fact as superficial aspossible without being totally content-free. "Forget thefour-colour glossies, give me the tech ref manuals." Oftenapplied as an indication of superficiality even when thematerial is printed on ordinary paper in black and white.Four-colour-glossy manuals are *never* useful for finding aproblem.

four-colour glossies

(2)[rare] Applied by extension to manual pages that don'tcontain enough information to diagnose why the program doesn'tproduce the expected or desired output.