Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!oliveb!bu.edu!bu-cs!ics!xug From: xug@ICS.COM (X User's Group) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Frequently Asked Questions in comp.windows.x Message-ID: <1990Jan8.130637.6600@ICS.COM> Date: 8 Jan 90 13:06:37 GMT Organization: the World Lines: 30 >From: david@ics.COM >>Reply-To: rick@hanauma.UUCP (Richard Ottolini) >>This group also supports lots of beginnings repeatedly asking similar >>questions. Comp.graphics posts weekly answers to most often asked questions. >>Examples: >> Where can I obtain X source? >> List of X reference books. >> Microcomputer vendors of X ports. >> Upcoming conferences about X. >> ... > >My impression is that someone at the X User's Group >is putting together just such a monthly-posting as both a reference and >as a means of cutting down on duplicate messages. To make this official: Yes, we are putting together such a list of commonly-asked questions and their answers. It will probably wind up being posted more often than once per month in order to anticipate much-asked questions about R4 (which already seem to have tripled volume). >Suggested questions should go to xug@expo.lcs.mit.edu. Answers appreciated, >as well, I'm sure. Yes, indeed. -- The X User's Group xug@expo.lcs.mit.edu "No, I'm a member of the X User's Group, not the Ex-User's Group."