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On 08-Jan-99 Michael Johnson wrote about the following Re: [SuSE Linux]
Disappointing responses :
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|| On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Kim C. Callis wrote:
|| > to create more clued in user, not tell them in effect, "You are a
|| > lame,
|| > that was a lame question and you need to go RTFM, if you want to know
|| > the
|| > answer!".
||
|| I really don't even think RTFM is an insult. I think it's a pointer to
|| stay grounded and use the many resources that are available to help
|| oneself. Is it really bad to say RTFM, if that's what a person needs
|| to
|| hear?
|| -M
Of course the real problem is that there is no de-facto manual for linux.
Once you wade through texinfo files, /usr/doc pages, howtos, mini-howtos,
only to find that the answer is really located on someone's web page, it
can become slightly discouraging.
All I am saying is that mentorship can occur without seeming hostility in
answers. I am a proponent of reading manuals, but that doesn't cause me to
hesitate to give someone a pointer to thier solution. As the old Chinese
proverb goes, "If you catch a fish for a man, you feed him for one day; If
you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.".
Just food for thought!
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