Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!agate!saturn!sidney From: sidney@saturn.ucsc.edu (Sidney Markowitz ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: (Thank you for solving)File info: Who, When & What? Message-ID: <8969@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 1 Sep 89 10:28:36 GMT References: <1989Aug31.212524.28754@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> Reply-To: sidney@saturn.ucsc.edu (Sidney Markowitz ) Followup-To: /dev/null Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 19 jinli@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Jin Tonic Li) writes: >I am sorry if some of you do not think that I sould have posted this >to comp.lang.c The problem is not in posting the questions to comp.lang.c, it's in posting the answers. Please, please, PLEASE, when you answer a question, REPLY BY E-MAIL instead of by posting if the question is simple, a matter of user error, or RTFM. Or if you think there might be lots of other people who also know the answer who are going to post. I have found it very time consuming to glean useful information from this list lately from within the mass of redundant replies to trivial questions. P.S. Don't reply to this to the net! In the hope that this one meta-message in violation of netiquette will reduce the future noise by more than one message, I am -- sidney markowitz