On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Steve Byrne wrote:
> 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.
I unpacked the tarball into /usr/java.
[summer@os2 summer]$ locate READ | grep java
/usr/java/jre/lib/i686/green_threads/README.versions
/usr/java/jre/README
I'm not going to read all the replies to this thread. Let me say this:
I've spent a considerable amount of time helping others over several years.
My web pages were at one time taking 10 000+ hits per month when hosted at
another IAP. don't know what traffic they take now: I don't use OS/2 much
now and don't provide much OS/2 help now either.
I stand by my comments: I think Steve was rude.
And the doc he says to read ARE NOT in the package I installed. I'd have
checked first: I check that my answers are correct when offering
advice: if not then I preface my remarks with "I think" or similar
indications of uncertainty.
In the above case, I'd have
1 Checked that the document exists
2 Mentioned it by name
3 Probably given a short summary.
I always quote enough that the reply carries enough question to make sense
alone. I always bear in mind that there are likely to be others with
similar questions and try to get those too.
If anyone wishes to argue my point further, you'll need evidence. Search
usenet archives: you'll need to go back a fair way as I've not been very
active since August last year.
I don't wish to diminish Steve's work: my point is that in this case he
could have done better.
Cheers
John Summerfield
http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
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