On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:19 PM, <vandaman2002-rt at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> Note: This began in the thread "[CentOS] Probably a bad setup but >> which one?" but I don't want to hijack that thread. "tech" began with >> a similar problem, with the Perl "Hello World" script. > > Oh no not another n00b. n00bs should probably have to go to boot camp or :- There are some very helpful people in the UK on this list. I am sorry that you have such disdain for newbies. Not all of us were born knowing everything. To the many many people on this mailing list who are extremely helpful, to me and others, you have my sincere appreciation. I'm sure that the others who do not find everything intuitively obvious are also very grateful for your time and help! My belief is that even the gurus on this list learn new things, from time to time. > 1. Don't top post. I did not top post. I do not top post. I began a new thread. > 2. Don't hijack another thread with new unrelated info. I posted in the other thread that I did not want to hijack the thread begun by "tech". I was amused that the other person had a similar problem, in Perl, with a "hello world" problem and I posted that I was having the same problem, with C++. > 3. Trim your responses. That I could have done. I should have eliminated the code that I included at the bottom, but, I thought possibly someone else on this list would find that C++ book very useful, especially since it can be downloaded, free.