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From: hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Hartkopf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: new standard file questions
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Date: 30 Nov 89 21:43:31 GMT
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In article <10706@claris.com> jazzman@claris.com (Sydney R. Polk) writes:
>
>Look, I don't mean this personally, but I see you asking lots of questions
>that are answered in the Toolbox Manuals.  Do you ever read them?
>The Standard File stuff is painstakingly clear (I know, I caused one of 
>the sections of documentation to be written!) if you read it and you
>have a knowledge of GS/OS.  I have also seen questions on other
>tools that could be figured out from the manuals.  What I am trying to
>say is, it is worth investing the time to look up the answers to questions
>in the Toolbox Manuals.  If you can't find it, THEN ask the net.
>
>Sorry to get on my soapbox,
>-- 
>Syd Polk           | Wherever you go, there you are.

Thank you.  Yes, I do read the toolbox manuals (the first two, that I have)
very closely before posting questions to the net.  However, unfortunately,
I am not able to afford both the Toolbox Reference Volume 3 beta draft and
the final draft when it comes out, so I'm waiting for the final draft.
Therefore, since I had no other way of finding out about the *new* Standard
File calls, that are explained only (I assume) in the 3rd volume, I posted
the question to the net.

I guess I thought that one purpose of this newsgroup was to ask technical
questions that one had no other way of getting answers to.


Jeff Hartkopf

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hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU