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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 13:15:01 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Lovecraft <lovecraft AT aol DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: The DJGPP Oracle
In-Reply-To: <19970812120001.IAA02033@ladder02.news.aol.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970813131355.4132E-100000@is>
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On 12 Aug 1997, Lovecraft wrote:

> >> What's wrong with grep? Or the search in the Info reader?
> >
> >I don't know what's wrong with these.  I always find in the FAQ
> >everything I need.  
> 
> Well aren't you just fabulous. I am not going to drop posting that if you
> only have a complaint about a question instead of an answer, just don;t
> post.

I really don't understand what made you so angry.  Perhaps you haven't
read the message I was replying to, and didn't understand what I was
telling.

Paul suggested to write a program that would allow to query the FAQ,
and I agreed it's a good idea.

Then somebody else asked why is such a program necessary, since we
have `grep'.  I replied that I didn't know why `grep' isn't enough,
since I can find the info in the FAQ without any trouble, but if
people (like Paul) tell me that `grep' is not enough, I have no
reason to doubt what they say.

Is anything wrong with that?  If so, please tell me what it is, so I 
could try to avoid saying that in the future.

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