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- From: whedon@netcom.com (Bill Whedon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- Subject: Re: What is the windows call to find the video mode?
- Message-ID: <3z6m#+m.whedon@netcom.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 18:20:35 GMT
- Article-I.D.: netcom.3z6m#+m.whedon
- References: <l8ijr3INN8qr@predator.cs.utexas.edu> <m44mt-p.whedon@netcom.com> <MARTY.92Aug14094913@predator.cs.utexas.edu>
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- In article <MARTY.92Aug14094913@predator.cs.utexas.edu> marty@cs.utexas.edu (Marty J. Sirkin) writes:
- >
- >'Dude' Bill Whedon:
- >
- >1) Thank you very much for answering my question. I appreciate you taking the
- > time to write and post the response.
- >
- >2) Take a valium :)
- >
- >***FLAME ON***
- >
- >In article <m44mt-p.whedon@netcom.com> whedon@netcom.com (Bill Whedon) writes:
- >
- >> [an answer to my question, along with an attitude, including:]
- >
- >> You can also see the SDK Reference for the specific index parameter
- >> values for each tidbit of data you wish to request. I don't recommend
- >> using the SDK docs as a textbook, but a quick glance through them on
- >> occasion sure wouldn't hurt. Take 'em to the head with you, or to the
- >> opera when your wife/husband/friend drags you along.
- >
- >Gee, thank you for explaining how 'Real Manly Programmers' (TM) work. Thanks
- >for the programming lesson. Why do you assume that I don't do this already?
- >As it so happens, I'm mainly an OS/2 programmer who is just playing with
- >Windows. I just tend to take other (non Windows) manuals to the head with
- >me. And besides, I'm the one who drags my wife to the opera (she has to bring
- >*her* manuals) :)
- >
- >> Now. I've not only bitched at you to RTFM, but also provided an
- >> answer for your question. I hope you appreciate the fact that many of
- >> our colleagues would only have done the former. RTFM, dude.
- >
- >What is your problem? Two people posted replies to my question, and quite
- >a few sent me E-mail. You are the only one who patted himself on the back,
- >while suggesting that others would bitch at my 'dumb' question (nobody else
- >did).
- >
- >It so happens that I read through 2 different books (as well as the
- >Borland manuals) for the answer before I posted. I knew what I wanted was
- >a device context call (of some sort). I looked in the DC sections and did
- >not find the call (it is in a *different* section for some odd reason). Go
- >figure. So I missed the call when I looked, and asked for a little help.
- >So sue me.
- >
- >As I mentioned before, I tend to program other environments. I tend to
- >answer (mainly via E-mail) other people's questions when I can (most of
- >which are from beginners or experimenters). I can only hope that I am
- >more polite than you were. When I suggest a reference (such as Petzold
- >for OS/2), I try to do it in the proper spirit. I don't tell people
- >to "stop programming until they get it", I merely suggest that it would
- >make their life a lot easier.
- >
- >I would suggest that while it is nice that you help people by answering
- >their questions, you really could stand to do it in a more mellow fashion.
- >
- >***FLAME OFF***
- >
- >Peace,
- >Marty Sirkin
- I apologize if you thought I was being impolite. I thought I was being
- somewhat tongue-in-cheek. I have no ire to direct at you for asking any
- question you please, but some people on the network do, and it was to
- their attention that I (thought I was directing) directed the sarcasm.
- Your question was well-formed, and was easy to answer. It was not really
- obvious in the SDK documentation, I know that, and (since I come also from
- the Wonderful World of OS/2 PM), not sufficiently like the PM stuff to
- suggest the obvious place to go.
-
- As to patting myself on the back, that was a snotty aside to some of the
- more condescending so-called "gurus" I've been reading. Sorry I was
- mistaken for one of them. I usually answer directly, and believe me,
- after reading your response, that's how I'll do it from now on, if at all.
-
- I am sorry that my feeble attempt at humour escaped you. I meant no harm.
- Bill Whedon
-