Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!elroy!jpl-devvax!jackm From: jackm@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Jack Morrison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: commonly asked questions (or stated fallacies) Message-ID: <2877@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: 16 Sep 88 15:01:44 GMT References: <1056@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <2515@ingr.UUCP> <13467@mimsy.UUCP> <753@proxftl.UUCP> <13550@mimsy.UUCP> <309@sdti.UUCP> Reply-To: jackm@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Jack Morrison) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. Lines: 15 In article <13550@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: -A `most frequently asked questions' for comp.lang.c would indeed be useful. -(any others?) Don't forget "How to declare and use function pointers". This seems to be a common problem on many newsgroups. Maybe someone could publish a "Greatest Hits" collection, and keep a table of contents somewhere (news.announce.newusers?) where people could look before posting repeat questions (or go back to read the answers they ignored until it was no longer "someone else's problem".) -- Jack C. Morrison, Jet Propulsion Laboratory "How is my typing? Call 1-818-354-1431, or mail jackm@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov"