For various reasons I won't attempt to discuss now, the UR-List Linux
sub-community is smaller than it should be. With a large community, if
one person doesn't know the answer to a technical problem, probably
another person does. But when you have only a handful of people, the
chances of getting a technical question answered are considerably
reduced. I have asked two technical questions on-List recently which
have not been answered. I actually need answers to my questions,
otherwise I wouldn't have asked them. These 2 questions could probably
be answered by a Rev engineer in a jiffy:
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1. In Rev Linux 2.6.1, can foreign symbols (with accents) be printed on
the printer or not?
2. Why doesn't the following work?
put "smbclient\ \\\\john\\c\ mount" into procToDo
open process procToDo for update
write "dir" to process procToDo [or "dir" & return]
read from process procToDo until eof
put it into field "test"
quit
close process procToDo
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Again, for various reasons I won't attempt to discuss now, Mark
Waddingham and others no longer participate on the UR-List. The person
at the gateway of Rev technical support nowadays seems to be Jacque more
or less exclusively, so I suppose the suggestion I am about to make is
addressed to her. (But I am making it publicly so that other Linux users
can benefit from the answer.) Jacque does a splendid job, but naturally
her experience with Linux is less than it is with Macintosh and Windows.
As I learned from my last contact with Rev technical support, she
doesn't even have access to a Linux machine, so for example, instead of
verifying a reported Linux bug in a couple of seconds, she needs to
exchange a number of e-mails with the Linux user in order to adequately
understand the problem.
My question is, can something be done about this? Jacque: If you see
that a simple Linux-specific question doesn't get answered on-List, is
there a way that some kind of answer can be extracted from the Rev
engineers?
Bob
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