On 4/27/06, William L. Maltby BillsCentOS@triad.rr.com wrote:
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 17:50 -0400, Nat Gross wrote:
On 4/27/06, William L. Maltby BillsCentOS@triad.rr.com wrote:
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 16:08 -0400, Nat Gross wrote:
On 4/27/06, Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/27/06, Nat Gross nat101l@gmail.com wrote:
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Whew! By the time I finish the yum docs, a new yum will be here!
Nah! A quick peruse and spot the one that seems to be most *immediately* and *pervasively* to get the job done. Scan that one and refer to a s needed. Then make "spare" time and dive into the others. That's what I've done since I asked my first (two?) yum questions. It helped. I *hate* bothering others when the answer makes me appear lazy. Other folks are not so encumbered.
Likewise, when I offer help of *any* kind, I'll try and take the extra step to help dispel some of the "grumpiness" that comes through in the most terse replies... uh *most* of the time I'll take the extra step.
Plus, maybe I can impart a little guilt, thereby causing a Q *after* research rather than before by more folks! =:-O In my dreams, yeah!
There's been a couple new folks showed up and inundated the list for several days straight, until talk of "spoon feeding" began to surface. I always hope that my extra info will help folks avoid that.
<sigh> since my Compuserve days (25+ years ago) I have been told to RTFM. But, I never gave that line to anyone I helped on line. Your point is well taken, however. In these days with man pages and google, I should really try that first. One thing about man pages; I wish they organized the options in categories of "most used", "seldom used" etc.
Anyhow, I really don't want to start a thread on this issue as I have a lot of reading to do! Have a nice one! -nat