From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 20:59:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.vbcomm.net (climax.vbcomm.net [208.178.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C2537B405 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 20:59:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Real-Return-Path: filipak@earthlink.net Received: from earthlink.net ([208.178.123.64]) by mail.vbcomm.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA12356; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:50:12 -0400 Message-ID: <3CC4DC14.1E504FA5@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:59:16 -0400 From: Mark Filipak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken McGlothlen Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Mark asks: Can anyone send me mcopy? References: <3CC19E08.8CA859B0@earthlink.net> <20020422075640.GU27975@roman.mobil.cz> <3CC3CC10.2F50EB0D@earthlink.net> <87r8l7e0o6.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ken McGlothlen quizically wrote: > > Mark Filipak writes: > > | I ask someone, anyone, to simply send me mcopy. No one sends me mcopy. > | Instead many people preach at me. > | > | What is wrong with this picture? > > Uh . . . Mark, this *isn't* a professional technical support facility > with paid personnel. I was not asking for that. I was just asking for mcopy, pure and simple. On other lists I belong to, when someone asks for something that is not illegal, some friendly fellow-listee sends it, without sermon and without hesitation. It's the friendly thing to do. You've been super in the help you've given me and I really, really appreciate it! So please read on. > It's a mailing list of volunteers; as such, the > responses are going to be rather less formal than you might expect from, > say, a Microsoft Technical Support Representative ($230 per incident, > last I checked). Well, I've never needed to use M$ support -- wonder why? ;-) (...but don't take that wrong, and please, read on...) > There's also a matter that people look at your request, and think, "Why > does he need a DOS emulation tool when he really doesn't? Perhaps he > doesn't know about how to mount, format or write floppies on a > Unix system. I'll tell him how to do that. Of course. In fact (of course)*2. 1 - Of course, if the (GallantWEB) system I was using at the time -- it's history now! -- had an msdos file system driver, I *would* have mounted it. But it didn't have an msdos file driver, but I knew that mcopy didn't need to have the floppy mounted. 2 - Of course, the folks here try to be helpful. They are all very nice folks. I have helped a couple of people off list, myself, regarding the UDF CD-RW problem created by Linux, and I'm a newbie! But when a fellow listee makes a simple request, why not simply do it? There's such a matter as being too helpful, to the extent that one reads "stupid, lazy newbie" into a simple request. Suppose I'd asked for a technical article... say, about XML? Would you assume that I couldn't find it because I hadn't tried to find it or because I was simply lazy? Of course not. If you had it, you'd send me a copy. So how is a request for mcopy any different? Well, it is different if you assume that I don't have a foggy idea what I'm doing and need a poke in the ribs. But that's just an assumption, isn't it? Nuf said. I don't need mcopy any longer, but I sure could have used it at the time. Ciao, and peace. -- Mark -- See my resume: http://home.earthlink.net/~filipak/resume/ See my music trade pages: http://home.earthlink.net/~filipak/music/ Last updated: 14 April 2002 Q: Is UNIX the spawn of Satan? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message