On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Dave Mielke wrote: > Hi: > > I haven't seen the message which instructed Jim to RTFM, but I'm going to > respond to it. Firstly, since we all know what the third letter in that acronym > stands for, surely, due alone to its vulgarity, we can all accept that it has one note: rtfm stands for read the fine manual as originaly meand that some people replace FINE with something pointed at by Dave is true, but not the correct meaning of it. > no place in anyone's response. Secondly, he asked a question whose answer > required knowledge of regular expressions, and they, even to the best of us, > can be rather difficult to learn. Thirdly, how was he supposed to know that > commands with such strange names as "sed" and "grep" are what he needed to look > into? Such a terse and rude response, therefore, especially when he'd asked a > sincere question very politely, was entirely out of place. > > -- > Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the > Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me > EMail: dave@mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > slainte mhaith (good health), slainte (cheers) Uisce Beatha (water of live/health) ----------- Andor Demarteau E-mail: ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ Utrecht University irc: see webpage for details ----------- Believe in yourself, know what you want, and make it happen!