Re: Order out of Chaos

Matt Estela (mestela@nospam.ftoomsh.socs.uts.edu.au)
Sun, 13 Aug 1995 20:36:02 +1000 (EST)

Once again, I found myself reading through Dennis's proposals and
nodding incessantly. One of the ideas that caught my eye was the 'try
before Ftoomsh buys' concept of encouraging users to test programs and
then giving them the thumbs up/down.

As usual, my question is HOW? Obviously this isn't covered in TFM (yet;
idea for TFM 96 perhaps?), and its not the sort of thing you can ask the
guy next to you while on the Suns. Worse still, some of us aren't even
doing comp.sci, so our options for learning this stuff are even more limited.

However, I'm prety sure that there's a point half-way between sheer
ignorance and "The Dummies Guide to UNIX", (although many would argue
they're one and the same), and that it would go by the name FAQ. If
someone could tell me where to find FAQ's on compiling/sh/tar et al, I
would be most grateful. Who knows, in a fit of goodwill I might even bring
my account under quota to compensate for my soon-to-be-formed ~/bin
directory. Maybe.

Yours etc,

Matthew Estela ===============================================================
mestela@nospam.ftoomsh.socs.uts.edu.au http://ftoomsh.socs.uts.edu.au/~mestela
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.