Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:59:16 -0400 From: Mark Filipak <filipak@earthlink.net> To: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mark asks: Can anyone send me mcopy? Message-ID: <3CC4DC14.1E504FA5@earthlink.net> References: <3CC19E08.8CA859B0@earthlink.net> <20020422075640.GU27975@roman.mobil.cz> <3CC3CC10.2F50EB0D@earthlink.net> <87r8l7e0o6.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com>
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Ken McGlothlen quizically wrote: > > Mark Filipak <filipak@earthlink.net> 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
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