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From: wcs@skep2.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.[ho95c])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Getting UNIX prompt ; easy questions
Summary: This group *isn't* just for wizards!
Message-ID: <538@skep2.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 89 02:09:48 GMT
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In article <1823@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> rostamia@umbc3.umbc.edu.UMBC.EDU (Rouben Rostamian) writes:
< P.S.3:  To those people who continue flaming about frequent and repeated 
< postings of elementary questions in this news group:  Short of starting
< a comp.unix.questions.elementary, if the answer to the 

The group comp.unix.questions was started *specifically* because there
were a lot of questions being asked in comp.unix.wizards that weren't
wizard-level questions - remember that new users need to learn  things,
too, and (after we've reminded them to RTFM) there are a lot of things
that are not obvious to an inexperienced user - even things that are in
the manuals often need a lot of thought, especially because
<heretical statements follow>
	some of the manual pages aren't all that well-written, and
	sometimes you have to know where to look before you look there.


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