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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 19:33:23 +1100
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: The DJGPP Oracle
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Organization: Tait Electronics Limited
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On 19 Aug 97 at 19:03, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> One thing I think would help would be to have downloading of the FAQ
> _mandatory_.  Include it in a vital package, and make people
> download it. That way you can't say, "I can't find it" (which is a
> fairly common FAQ in itself).

:) As the location of the FAQ is a FAQ, the location of the FAQ 
should be in the FAQ so that newbies can look it up in the FAQ. :)

[Teagan (sp?) in Dr Who] "If we had an index file, we could look up 
'index file' in the index file"


Seriously, IMHO, that's the only FAQ (along with whether one even 
exists) that has a place in newsgroups/mailing lists.
Bill
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Leave others their otherness.

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