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- From: collins@thor.tu.hac.com (Ron Collins)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Unbuffered character input...
- Date: 1 Feb 1996 14:27:08 GMT
- Organization: Advanced Depot Systems
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- John Grant (jagrant@emr1.emr.ca) wrote:
- [snip]
-
- : >To those of you who have been regulars of this group for a while, please bear
- : >with me: I will surely kick the habit of responding to clueless DOS
- : >programmers before long. In the past week, I've seen the stupid "how do I get
- : >single characters from the keyboard" asked about thirty times! The replies
- : >are often worse than the questions.
-
- : Would you be as insulting to 'clueless UNIX programmers' who
- : asked the same question or provided a similar answer?
- : --
-
- Sorry for posting off-topic but ...
-
- Yes, I would. However, if you watch comp.lang.c for a month or so, you'll
- notince that the overwhelming majority of repeated stupid questions come
- from DOS users. Not only are these questions covered in the FAQ, but
- they're covered in the BORLAND and MICROSOFT compiler manuals (the two
- most popular C compilers for DOS and/or Windows). The people asking these
- questions not only did not read the FAQ (I might forgive that if the FAQ
- is hard to find for a newbie), but they didn't even read their own manuals
- (stupid and lazy: I can't forgive that).
-
- Unix people, in general, seem to have a little more experience (Unix on
- home machines is still not as popular as DOS).
-
- OK, I'll stop my tirade. I'll post further rantings to comp.lang.soapbox.
-
-
- -- collins --
-