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- From: chip@midnight.seas.upenn.edu (Charles H. Buchholtz)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: Help with directories!
- Message-ID: <87094@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 17:36:03 GMT
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- In article <BtLLGI.BtJ@cs.dal.ca> digdon@ug.cs.dal.ca (Mike Digdon) writes:
- >>
- >>The point is that you can't volunteer everyone to act as the archive master
- >>for the group, sending threads to hapless new posters. What is so horribly
- >>bad about reading a group for a few weeks before you post?
- >>
- >>--Dave
- >
- >The answer to the above question is very simple.. what if you need the
- >information NOW, and not a few weeks from now? [...] Now, netiquette
- >says "Don't post until you are familiar.." The boss says, "Find the
- >answer before lunch or you will be reading net.jobs.." I think you
- >would post before you were supposed to..
-
- Well, I *am* a boss, who frequently tells my staff to find out the
- answer by posting to the net. Frequently, this involves posting to
- news groups that they have never even heard of, much less have read.
-
- I have explained to them all that when I say, "See if you can get the
- answer from comp.foo.bar", I mean
-
- 1) Check for an FAQ in news.answers
- 2) Search backwards for two months, 500 articles, or as much
- as we still have online (whichever is shorter)
- 3) If this looks like the right place (from step 2), post the
- question
-
- If they find the answer in step 1 or 2, I get the answer sooner
- (usually). Otherwise, it doesn't slow us down significantly. It's
- certainly *lazier* to just post without searching first, but I don't
- think it's significantly *faster*.
-
- By the way, as I recall from the discussion earlier this month in this
- news group, there are three approaches to getting octal permissions:
- C, perl, and awk. No one reported an easy solution, such as an option
- to ls.
-
- Charles H. Buchholtz chip@seas.upenn.edu
- Systems Programmer (215) 898-2491
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