delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi   search  
Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/08/14/20:17:16

From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: The DJGPP Oracle
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 07:37:59 -0700
Organization: Alcyone Systems
Lines: 20
Message-ID: <33F31847.4B4440D2@alcyone.com>
References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 970813131624 DOT 4132F-100000 AT is> <19970813200900 DOT QAA21426 AT ladder02 DOT news DOT aol DOT com> <5stghq$i43$1 AT vnetnews DOT value DOT net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: newton.alcyone.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

M. Schulter wrote:

> Of course, reading the docs is only the starting point. People can miss
> details, misunderstand things, or fail to realize that a problem they
> perceive in one way is really synonymous with an issue covered in the
> FAQ
> or other DJGPP documentation under a different name.

I make a distinction between someone who has looked at the README and the
FAQ and still doesn't understand (for whatever reason), and those that
haven't even bothered looking and want me to find the passage in the FAQ
for them.

-- 
       Erik Max Francis, &tSftDotIotE / email / mailto:max AT alcyone DOT com
                     Alcyone Systems /   web / http://www.alcyone.com/max/
San Jose, California, United States /  icbm / 37 20 07 N  121 53 38 W
                                   \
   "Love is not love which alters / when it alteration finds."
                                 / William Shakespeare, _Sonnets_, 116

- Raw text -


  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2019   by DJ Delorie     Updated Jul 2019