Robert,
I'm not trying to screw things up for anyone, and I am as appreciative
of their efforts as anyone. I too have gotten a great deal of useful
information from reading this list. I was simply trying to make the
point that there are a lot of reasons why someone posts a question to
the group, and only one of them is laziness.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Ritchy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 1:31 PM
> To: Kanoza_D
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Java app without X installed
>
> Listen - as yet another newbie - don't screw things up for me. This
> list
> has been EXTREMELY helpful to me and my work. The promptness and
> quality of
> reponse from this list is unmatched. These "gurus" have taken a lot
> time to
> give us a quality product and support for FREE!!!!! They are
> certainly not
> asking too much when they expect us to read the README.linux file. If
> you
> want more support then pay for it - although I don't see how you could
> get
> more support about java-linux than we are fortunate enough to get
> here.
>
> Steve, please don't let this get you too pissed off. It's taken all
> of my
> energy NOT to fill this reply with harsh (and four letter) words.
>
> I'm in great debt to all of you contributing to this port. Thank you
> for
> all your efforts!
>
> Robert
>
>
>
> Kanoza_D wrote:
>
> > Let me just put in my two cents as another newbie. It's a pain in
> the
> > a** to have to RTFM all the time. Has anyone counted up all the
> > thousands of pages of documents there are out there? Speaking as
> > someone who has been R'ing TFM instead of asking, I have to say that
> > while it gives me a great deal of satisfaction to have figured it
> out on
> > my own, there has been more than one occasion when I've been up all
> > night long searching for an answer in the docs that one of you gurus
> > could have answered without thinking. I recently got married, I
> work
> > full time, I'm in graduate school, and I'm one of those people who
> > requires 8 hours of sleep a night in order to function. My time is
> at a
> > premium, and if I post a question to the group it's not because I'm
> too
> > lazy to find it myself, it's because I just plain don't have the
> time to
> > do it myself and I'm hoping someone out there will be a little
> > understanding and give me a helping hand. I'm not asking you to
> come to
> > my house and do it for me, after all.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Steve Byrne [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 12:35 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: Java app without X installed
> > >
> > > John Summerfield writes:
> > > > On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Steve Byrne wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Aw, come on, man! RTFM! I covered this in great detail; you
> > > should take the
> > > >
> > > > Well I for one don't know which frigging document you're
> talking
> > > about.
> > >
> > > I guess README.linux *could* be named more obviously :-)
> > >
> > > > I've just installed the jre on a system without X. To make the
> jre
> > > even run
> > > > I found it necessary to install a part of XFree even though I
> don't
> > > want
> > > > the gui.
> > >
> > > Fixed in v5.
> > >
> > > > I can see no mention of this in any of the documentation
> included
> > > with the
> > > > package jre1.1.6-v4a-i386-libc5.tar.gz.
> > >
> > > Look again in README.linux.
> > >
> > > > Exercise patience and courtesy in your replies. You too were a
> > > beginner
> > > > once.
> > >
> > > Yes. And I didn't ask for help before exhausting the other
> options,
> > > if I asked
> > > for help at all.
>
> << File: Card for Robert Ritchy >>
