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

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