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];
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> 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.
