> >
> > After the "error in the instructions" was corrected, it downloaded
> > correctly.  MY IDE WORKS.  The BASH command produces the error.
> 
>   cd /palmdev
>   ln -s sdk-3.5 sdk
 
>   by default, it looks in /palmdev/sdk unless you specify which
>   "sdk" to use.. this is mentioned in the documentation somewhere

Thanks, that matches what I had to do in the IDE.

> > >   if there is one thing i have figured out from developing
> > >   software is that you can never make your software
> > >   idiot-proof.. its a fact of life - and, now we move on.
> >
> > That is true. And you cannot make it user-friendly either,
> > apparently.
> 
>   you want user-friendly? you pay for it.
> 
>   what gets on my nerve is how everyone expects stuff for free,
>   and, when something doesn't work out how they want it to - they want
>   us to all sit on our thumbs and help them..
> 
>   open source software is very well known to not be "user friendly"
>   and, we put hours of our own time into these projects, understanding
>   how they work and why they work the way they do only to see people
>   come along and say "hey, it doesn't work like i expect - fix it"

First, I never once said I want "user friendly."  If you check, my 
comment was a statement to comments like "stupidity" and "not idiot 
proof" that you used.  

Second, while I don't expect user-friendly for free, I also don't 
expect to be called "stupid" and "an idiot" because I follow the 
instructions and get an undesired result because of something that 
was not forbidden, in the instructions.

> > I have been reading this news list for 2 years and I see this
> > continual attitude of resenting helping those that request help.
> 
>   contribute something then.
> 
>   the problem in this case is that John did try to help you, but
>   you couldn't see the forest through the tree's. you had it set
>   in your mind that what you were doing was 100% accurate and
>   you didn't consider that making the change on *your* side was
>   not your problem.

I did not say that I was 100% correct.  I said I was following the 
instructions 100%.  And I was.  
 
> > Bottom line:
> > *** The instructions were followed and
> > *** nothing that I did was against the instruction AND
> > *** even you and John admitted that I did nothing that against the
> >     written instructions.
> 
>   so, we didn't write "DONT CHANGE THE INSTALL DIRECTORY" and that is
>   our fault? i dont think so here - the installation of prc-tools 2.0
>   and 2.0.92 differ amazingly. but, now you know.
> 
> // az
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.ardiri.com/

Of course it's not a fault.  But it's not my fault for not knowing 
that that was a requirement, was it?  And that does not make me an 
"idiot" or "stupid" for not knowing that, does it?

Mike

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