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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!gcnext!mike
- From: mike@gcnext.gac.peachnet.edu (Michael A. Murphy)
- Subject: Re: WANT GCC? FORGET FAQ.GCC AND README?? READ THIS FIRST!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.010740.19522@gcnext.gac.peachnet.edu>
- Organization: Georgia College - Milledgeville, GA
- References: <186a86INNcsb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 01:07:40 GMT
- Lines: 56
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- In article <186a86INNcsb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
- >
- >Forget README and FAQ.
- >THEY JUST AREN'T WORTH THE TIME READING!!!!!!!!!!!
- >
-
- Thanks you, HLU, for all the work you have put into giving Linux
- a good implementation of GCC. Reading comprehension (or lack thereof)
- is not your problem. The README and FAQ are fine.
-
- >This is the linux source code. Get the patches if you want them.
- >(I personally haven't figured out what to do with them. :) )
-
- I have a couple of suggestions on what you could do with them, but it
- would probably be uncomfortable.
-
- >The reason that we have to do all this crap is because LINUX has a
- >limitation on length of filenames. UNIX doesn't have them.
- >DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THIS CAN BE CHANGED??????
-
- If you occasionally tried _reading_ the info available about linux
- you would know that this could be changed. Since reading FAQs, DOCs,
- and release info is obviously _NOT_ one of your favorite things, it
- is fine with me if you continue be ignorant of how to get extended
- files names.
-
- >
- >Hopefully this will motivate someone (in authority?) to make this
- >installation process a little easier.
- >
- >--
-
- I never thought I would say this, but:
- If Linux is making your life so miserable, please go back to DOS,
- or buy a Mac, or get some little wooden blocks that you can stack
- on top of each other. Maybe stacking little wooden blocks would
- be better suited to your capabilities.
-
- To all other readers: My apologies, but i am extremely tired of
- listening to people gripe about FTP sites, GCC installation, Linux
- shortcomings is general. We should be (and _I_ am) extremely
- grateful to the people who have put much time and energy into
- making Linux avaiable to us. My thanks to all involved with Linux
- (archive sites, programmers, porters) for making a great free
- OS available to me. Please don't think that the few who bitch
- and moan are representative of the community making use of your
- work. Most of us really appreciate what you have done.
-
- Thanks,
- mike
-
-
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- Michael A. Murphy mike@gcnext.gac.peachnet.edu
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