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From: wert@toaster.Sun.COM (Robert Scott Comer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: CopyBits in MPW C 3.0
Keywords: CopyBits , MPW C
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Date: 14 Apr 89 20:19:42 GMT
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Not condescending, really. But face it, he has all the info he needs to
answer this question in a readily accessible form online. It takes less
time to look up the answer to that question than to post the message to
the net! I don't give exact details about CopyBits because my Inside
Mac is at home.

But, his real question isn't about CopyBits!! His real problem is that
he doesn't understand C types and MPW and the Mac. If he understood those
things he wouldn't have to ask. What he really needs is just what I gave
him: directions on how to answer his question himself. This is just the
same as the old proverb: Give a hungry man a meal and he will still be
hungry tomorrow, but give him _____ (fill in the blank with your favorite
enabling technology, like confidence, a shovel, a cow, some seed, etc.)
and he will eat for the rest of his life.

Too many people just answer questions here without thinking about
the person and her context, not from a real need to help them, but
from a need to show that they know the answer.

scott out