From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jun 30 18:12:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from www0x.netaddress.usa.net (www0x.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05667153CC for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:12:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesus.monroy@usa.net) Received: (qmail 25027 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Jul 1999 01:12:34 -0000 Message-ID: <19990701011234.25026.qmail@www0x.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.24.53 by www0x via web-mailer() on Thu Jul 1 01:12:33 GMT 1999 Date: 30 Jun 99 18:12:33 PDT From: Jesus Monroy To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: My FreeBSD Experience ]]]]]] Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer () Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On 30 Jun 1999, Jesus Monroy wrote: > > = > > Do you feel yelling at the programers or > > docuementers trying to find out where this > > problem is? I certainly don't have the energy for this. > = > Wow, i'm glad i've never been given the beating you are when I = > disagreed with some people on the lists... :) > = This is nothing. I actually think the love me. :-) > Problems with man pages is the most goddam easy > thing to fix. > = > just use cvsup to grab the source tree in cvs = > format, use this cvsup file: > = BUZZZZZtttt. wrong. Are you helping M$ with their Y2K plan? = Did you hear that about M$? They actually suggested that people download at 200Megabyte file (MSiE) to fix a 2 byte problem. Now, in your case, it's 4 paragraphs and 4-6 hours of my time. NO thank you. = Let's ask a real question: Why can't program fixers write the fricken man page fix also? What's up with that? = Is this the correct response: Okay, I'll take the glory, but we have janitors to clean up after we are done. We call them document specialist(sp?). So let's try again,kids... Let talk about a real answer, = Or is everyone out on this one also. > > --- > > "I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, = > > pop-up-happy dungeon like NT." > > http://www.performancecomputing.com/features/9809of1.shtml > = > I *LOVE* this quote. :) > = Thanks, just wish I had said it. :-) --- "I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, = pop-up-happy dungeon like NT." http://www.performancecomputing.com/features/9809of1.shtml ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message