Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 18:53:53 +1100 From: Bill Currie Subject: Re: The DJGPP Oracle In-reply-to: <19970813034200.XAA03388@ladder02.news.aol.com> To: lovecraft AT aol DOT com (Lovecraft), djgpp AT delorie DOT com Message-id: <199708130658.SAA05743@teleng1.tait.co.nz gatekeeper.tait.co.nz> Organization: Tait Electronics Limited MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Comments: Authenticated sender is Precedence: bulk On 13 Aug 97 at 3:42, Lovecraft wrote: > Because of the assumption that I didn't read the FAQ when a gentle > pointer to where it might be is much more helpful. > > I'm not asking for people to keep answering questions that are > addressed elsewhere, just point us in the right direction without Hey, what do you think many of the replies say? Many I see say something like `check section x.y of the FAQ which you can get from the same place you got djgpp'. Now, you can't ask for better help than that. I certainly don't, not that I normally need it anymore, but I still occastionally refer to it. Heck, most of the questions I ever had were answered before I asked them. Anyway, you (and every other newbie on this list) should consider your self extremly lucky: when I started with djgpp there was no faq, all I had was the most basic required binaries for c/c++ (plus a few libs) and NO INTERNET CONNECTION. You complain about getting a few grumbles for appearently not reading the supplied docs, but at least you can ask and get an answer; I couldn't even ask. I was completely on my own with only 3 or 4 small documents to read (readme, internals, some sort of functions listing by A. Appleyard (sp?), and something covering how to invoke gcc. Sorry if I came on too strong, but please, everyone, stop moaning. If the docs don't tell you what you need to know, say so, politely, but READ THEM FIRST because just about every question asked on this list these days is answered (and easy to find) by the supplied docs (readme.1st and the faq). I just wish such resources were available when I started. BTW I think the oracle is an *EXELENT* idea, and as someone mentioned before, it could even be excelent for the rest of the GNU community. Bill -- Leave others their otherness.