Hi Jan, On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> > Actually I dislike the verbosity, > My point was that I think *dummies* like the verbosity. If you are > a dummy, then of course I am mistaken. Well we'll agree to differ on that point. Or those points. :) > > but 'v' option or not, the tar manpage on my boxes says: [..] > Linux as a whole (not only dosemu) suffers from incredibly bad > documentation. xfzv works, and has worked for years, in any > permutation. Well we'll agree to agree on at least some of those points. > > Sounds like time to send in a documentation patch. I tell you > > what. You write it, I'll test it. Deal? > You never (as you said) even tried the binary install. Some > tester! Well that was the idea - no preconceived ideas, see? :) > But I did. Let's do it the other way round: you make it > work (including the font part), then I write the doc. Deal? Heck, no. I like to read the book and just do what it says. Maybe I'm just lazy. Or a dummy. Or both. > Seriously: I think the binary install should do exactly the same > that the (excellent) source install does Well we can agree on that entirely. Unfortunately I'm not sure it's very easy given the rich texture of the various flavours of Unix-like operating systems. Or the big mess as some would call it. > > PS: Do you always send UTF-8? > In principle, yes.. but in Mozilla, apostrophes often behave weirdly Mozilla? I'm using Pine. Eight bits has always been enough for me. > 'Send'? '73'? Radio? A long time ago. It's all 2.4GHz now, kids' stuff. 73, Ged. MSEG3 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
