four-colour glossies
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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