Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:58:37 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid (Graaagh the Mighty)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 03:19:24 GMT
>
> >> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> 
> >> >It's all in the Intel manuals; please read them.
> >> 
> >> Or what? You'll flame me? I sure *hope* that participating on this
> >> newsgroup without being ostracized, flamed, laughed at, or otherwise
> >> looked down upon doesn't demand one buy copies of big expensive
> >> manuals whose contents you got the optimizing compiler to avoid having
> >> to worry about. In fact, I'll seriously consider leaving if it becomes
> >> apparent that participants are expected to have copies of any kind of
> >> non-free reference material whatsoever.
> >
> >Dude, calm down! Eli was just pointing you in the right direction to
> >answer you question.
> 
> Okay, I'll grant that. It looked suspiciously like a command, rather
> than a suggestion, the way it was worded.

``A command''?  All it says is "please read them".  And I though _I_
was having problems with understanding written English.

> That tends to get me Irish
> up, especially when it also seems dismissive of the "You shouldn't
> have asked that here" variety (despite being topical and not in the
> FAQ) and there's no reason to suspect the manuals in question cost
> less than an arm and a leg at that point. :-)

When talking with people for many of whom English is not their first
language, please allow for a large margin of misunderstanding
(including yours), before you even consider an ill will as a remote
possibility.

> Apparently. Some amount of confusion would have been saved by Eli
> posting something a bit more akin to:
> "Not sure anyone here can sum it up in just a few words, but all of
> the gory details are in the reference manuals at http://foo, though
> I'm not sure you'll want to slog through all of those."

That's what I said.  As for a URL, I don't remember it (even now), but
google does.  This is considered common knowlege these days, like the
need to look up the FAQ.