----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Burrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: CVS
> "Ben Kennish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Why is it that we are continually asked to trawl through the previous
mail
> > group archive to find things out?
>
> Because we'd keep repeating ourselves. And why do that, when you can
> search the archives for previously written answers ? The more often
> we answer the same old questions, the more terse the answers will become.
>
> After a while, a FAQ is written.
>
> > Couldn't various useful things like "how to use CVS" be posted on the
web
> > site itself?
>
> Documentation on "How to use CVS", like most software is normally on the
> web-site of the primary distribution source of that software. You usually
> get a copy of it when you download the software.
>
> If you are actually talking about wanting to get anonymous access to the
> CVS sources of freevsd, then that should be documented. But I can't find
> the information anywhere, apart from in the mail archives.
>
> Since the mail archives are on the web site, doesn't that actually
> answer your question ?
>
Sorry for sounding a bit moody in my last mail! :-)
I know that the answers can be found by searching the archives but when you
type "CVS" and get a massive great big list of messages to search through
(some of which may have typos or be wrong in some way) it can be a bit
frustrating.
Surely it wouldn't be a bad idea to spend 5 minutes putting a FAQ on-line in
HTML format (in the Support section) with detailed long-winded answers to
all Frequently Asked Questions like this so then people would have no
excuse! ;-)
I'd be happy to contribute in any way I could to this FAQ and I'm sure many
others would to.
Ben K
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