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From: mvolo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS and changing the path
Summary: Amen!! Manners please, and help newcomers!!!
Message-ID: <5333@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 88 23:43:33 GMT
References: <11416@steinmetz.ge.com> <763@naucse.UUCP>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <763@naucse.UUCP>, wew@naucse.UUCP (Bill Wilson) writes:
> You people seem to be able to flame at will but no-one seems
> to like to help.  I do not have a manual, was not told how to
> get a manual, have not been able to get help from our systems
> programmer (who is also the administrator) and no-one out there
> it net land when giving criticisms will offer any help.  I finally
> was able to figure out who a moderator might be and in two days he
> hasn't had the decency to return any mail to me.
> 
> Why don't you bigots get off your high horses and offer some help
> instead of none?
Amen!  Much of the reason for newcomers (and some oldies) *not* reading
the f......g manual, is that in computerdom (especially Unixdom) 
is that the manual is either unavailable, or so terse and un-Englishlike
to be unreadable, or difficult to locate, or not recurrent enough
to be found by new users.  One suggestion might be that the moderator
of comp.binaries.ibm.pc (or any other group with specialized submis-
ion requirements) carry a perennial message describing the address of
the moderator and procedures for submission..


Michael R. Volow                   919 286 0411
Dept. of Psychiatry                mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP
Durham Vet Admin Medical Center
Durham, N.C. 27712