Message-ID: <378DE241.7722EA16@pentek.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:29:37 -0400 From: Charles Krug Organization: Pentek Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: FAQ File References: <7mioaj$c5k$1 AT news101 DOT telia DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.pentek.com X-Trace: 15 Jul 1999 09:28:55 -0400, mail.pentek.com Lines: 34 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "Tonni Schmücker" wrote: > Excuse me ...... before i do something wrong .... I would like to know the > rules about posting questions here !!!!! do one have to read the FAQ file > .......before asking ....kindly ,,,,,, and harmless .... I'm sure that > almost everyone here uses the FAQ as a guideline ..... but for us newbies > it's easier to communicate with people instead of a large file filled with > unknown phrases and stuff. The hardest part of getting started is getting the environment setup so that info will run. Once that happens, you can read the FAQ. Before that, it's much harder. Spend some time learning how to use info. HUGE help. As a beginner, my biggest problem was learning what KINDS of questions to ask the FAQ. If I had to suggest an addition to README, it would be, "FIRST LEARN HOW TO USE INFO." The second addition would be, "DO A SEARCH ON WORDS IN YOUR ERROR MESSAGE." Or the program you're having problems with. Once I learned that the question to ask the FAQ was usually found in the error message, it was easy to learn the answer from the FAQ. For that little piece of information, I'd gladly have paid, in the beginning anyway. Charles -- Charles Krug, Jr. Application Engineer Pentek Corp 1 Park Way Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458