Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!am.dsir.govt.nz!dsiramd!actrix!bearcave!clear From: clear@bearcave.actrix.co.nz (Charlie Lear) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: UUCP Message-ID: Date: 2 Jul 90 13:10:53 GMT References: <42506@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: The Cave BBS, Wellington, New Zealand +64(4)643429 Lines: 32 dell@Apple.COM (Thomas E. Dell) writes: > Anyway, one of the projects for v1.63 is documentation that is > easier for a neophyte to help install the system. (It will be ready > in late July..) I got v1.61 up and running with only four hours or so of headscratching. v1.62 installed quickly. It DID take a long time for me to find the bugs that were causing my mail and news to go astray. The default mailer has no subject: line, which screws up my host, and it was sheer chance that I found how to do it in the docs. Lots of grep and LIST and sh-prtscn. Also couldn't figure out why none of my news was making it past the host. My host's default distribution is local. Waffle's default distribution is zilch - again, it was coincidence that I found out how to get it to prompt me for a Distribution: line. It isn't that the info is missing from the docs - its just hard to filter out. A big hint for 1.63 - PLEASE include a ill function. That's Waffle's only big omission that I can see. As for the docs, perhaps you could ask for volunteers to rewrite them into a form suitable for human understanding from amongst the comp.text and comp.doc gurus. But whatever you do, PLEASE DROP the inane use of foo and bar - clear@bearcave.actrix.co.nz is a lot clearer for new users to follow than foo@foo.bar.foo.us. Regards One Very Happy Single-User Waffle Site