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From: ron@wjvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Help needed with 4.2 sail (reply), Request for search.6
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Date: Wed, 18-Jul-84 13:50:10 EDT
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>From the TARDIS of Mark Callow:

	1.  Some of the queries about this have specifically referred to the
   	 Berkeley distribution which is *source*.

I'll concede that one.

	2.  Reasonable binary distributions (e.g. Sun) have the Sail
	documentation in /usr/man/man6 where it belongs.

Sorry, ours did not.  We got sail.6 from another usenet site.  Our binary
distribution was not reasonable?  Besides, I think we can safely assume
that the person tried "man sail" first.  Don't you?

	3.  Part of *really looking* for something involves asking your friendly
   	 system adminstrator.  We have /usr/src/games closed off but I have
   	 put sail in /usr/man/man6.

Umm, well, that depends on the system administrator.  It wouldn't have occured
to ME to look there, (wouldn't have worked anyway) but I'm just a hacker that
happens to have the SU password.  Like some system administrators.

	4.  Yes, people should engage brain before opening mouth.  That
	is exactly the point my earlier reply was trying to make.

Not quite.  The difference is this:  Not knowing something is not a crime!
Those of us that are more familiar with [insert topic here] have a, if not
duty to help, at least obligation not to interfere!  There is lots of abso-
lute drivel on the net (This missive probably adds to it) but by flaming easy
(not stupid) questions you are only ADDING to the gobs of useless junk.  The
question was important to the person who asked it, and he probably received
thousands of copies of sail.6  So what?  (He asked, leaving himself wide
open...)  Besides, some poor netter is even now languishing in ignorance
because he's afraid of posting his question. :-)

So I can't be accused of totally ignoring the newsgroup rules, I have a
request for the documentation on /usr/games/search on the 4.1 tape.  I've
really looked for it, really I have.  Honest.

"There are no stupid questions... (you know the rest.)"
-- 

	"Trivia is important."		Ron Christian
					Watkins-Johnson Co.
					San Jose, Calif.
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