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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!manuel!coombs!avalon
- From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
- Subject: Re: #hack and #twilight_zone
- Message-ID: <avalon.716545823@coombs>
- Lines: 53
- Sender: news@newshost.anu.edu.au
- Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
- References: <1992Sep14.181242.28718@csus.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 08:30:23 GMT
-
- chaneysa@nextnet.csus.edu (Stephen A Chaney) writes:
-
-
- >Something is seriously wrong with some of the people who dwell on IRC.
-
- >For instance, in my trying to find out what is wrong with my recently
- >found Fido program.
-
- >First of all, no one wanted to tell me the name of the program. Then,
- >when I was told and pulled it out with Archie, it compiled and now it
- >produces this error when I created the needed .fido file:
-
- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >fido: bad line in .fido: chaneys@athena.ecs.csus.edu
-
- >Mon Sep 14 11:05 <<<<<<<<< uts386 is down (20w3d22h8m)
- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- >I thought I created the .fido file the way it was supposed to be
- >created. Then I compiled it. When it failed, I deleted the .fido
- >file and then compiled it, then recreated it, I got the same error all
- >over again.
-
- >I went and POLITELY (read: NICELY WITHOUT BEING UGLY) asked about this
- >problem, and I got this from #twilight_zone:
-
- >"Fido sucks."
- [...]
-
- Well, maybe you should read the documentation for fido again ?
-
- Seems that the above line is bad but i'll let you work out why.
-
- Failing that, try playing with rusers and perl/shell scripts.
- Or even, *shudder*, write your own program.
-
- >In neither case did anyone think it necessary to help me get this
- >.fido file problem fixed, yet I personally know of at least 2 or 3 IRC
- >dwellers who have a Fido-like program that detects me when I log on.
- [...]
-
- Incorrect. Someone on #twilight_zone recommended the watch variable
- in tcsh be used instead. From here, things went down hill rather
- fast. Maybe you should hunt out a local 'guru' who can help you and
- spend the time required on this.
-
- There has been a guide to "how to behave on #twilight_zone" posted
- many times. Some people have no problems but others who hang about
- nagging really get on people's nerves. Unlink a lot of other IRCers,
- IRC is just another window to those people.
-
- avalon
-