Bob George wrote: > > A standard 50X80 VGA screen is 4k. 250 screens/meg, just one > > gig of a cheap hard drive these days would therefore hold > > 250,000 pages, more than enough to hold every FAQ of every > > Linux app I ever hope to use. For an extra buck it could be > > burned on a couple of CDs to come with a distro. it aint. > > Did you ever bother to install the docs? Yep. as far as I can tell. I got a 9gig scsi drive, and when I intall a distro, ask for everything that is on the cd. why the hell not? But if it aint there, I dunno whether it dont exist, or where to get it, or whether whatever I can download will be appropriate. It wouldda been so much easier, if like dos, the faq came with the app, was parked with the app in the same directory, and didnt churn the hard drive looking thru hundreds of directories and sub-directories.
> We've been through this before. You > went on endlessly about the lack of manpages, and others with the same > distribution responded that they have them. It wasnt the lack of man pages Bob, it was the lack of the content I was looking for, and how damn long it took for the pc to find anything. The man pages are for Linux, not the apps, and the lack of documentation on the apps that came on the cd with the distro is what the problem is. and the reason for the problem is in the next line. > > Why not? because that would adversely affect the ad revenue > > of visiting the support websites you mention. > > You keep implying that Linux is somehow commercial, whereas DOS wasn't. This > is blatantly incorrect. No, what I refer to is a new way they found to make money Bob. I dont blame them for trying. the payback on sharware was always crummy. But even if you pay the registration, I dont think that gets you off the spam lists they sold your name to. I thought about filters now that I had a distro running on this scsi, but then saw Dvorak on tech tv speak about the problem he had with it, and I figure if this guy still has problems with all the money and skill he has, I aint gonna bother trying. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
