From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: The DJGPP Oracle
Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 1997 09:07:18 -0700
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Lovecraft wrote:

> If we're lucky we might have an hour a day to get e-mail,
> program, and peruse a faq that is laid out like spaghetti code.

If you're so busy, then you shouldn't be spending your time with DJGPP.
It's not designed to be the most efficient use of your time if your not
familiar with gcc.

Furthermore, how long does it take to find the answer to a question in the
DJGPP FAQ?  It takes me about ten seconds.  In the late 1990s there are
inventions called grep, or even if you don't understand what that means,
any reasonable text editor will have a FIND function.  Try using it.

> Nick, wishing for the return of neighbors helping neighbors and an end
> to
> the conservative agenda.

I don't understand how receiving an answer of "this answer is in the FAQ"
is not a case of "neighbors helpinig neighbors."  Quite simply, if a
question is answered in the FAQ, it is better answered there than I could
answer on the spot in an article.  So I point them to the best resource.
How could that possibly not be helpful?

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