“Steve Reid” <stever@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:aabl2a$dva$1@nntp.qnx.com…
P.S. I have tremendous respect for anyone who creates an index, and I’ve
become more forgiving when an index doesn’t have the term I want to find.
If you want a taste of how to do it, see The Chicago Manual of Style; it
describes how to do it with (gulp!) index cards.What a relief. So now we can expect QSSL to mail out a box of index cards
whenever someone downloads a copy of RTP, right?
JUST KIDDING!
“Bill Caroselli (Q-TPS)” <QTPS@earthlink.net> wrote:
: “Steve Reid” <stever@qnx.com> wrote in message
: news:aabl2a$dva$1@nntp.qnx.com…
:> P.S. I have tremendous respect for anyone who creates an index, and I’ve
:> become more forgiving when an index doesn’t have the term I want to find.
:> If you want a taste of how to do it, see The Chicago Manual of Style; it
:> describes how to do it with (gulp!) index cards.
:>
: What a relief. So now we can expect QSSL to mail out a box of index cards
: whenever someone downloads a copy of RTP, right?
: JUST KIDDING!
Yes. And you can use them to create your own, custom index for all of our
docs. 
Seriously, if you look unsuccessfuly for a term in one of our indices, and
you think it should be there, please let us know by posting in a newsgroup,
or by sending email to docs@qnx.com.
(If you have technical questions, please post them; don’t email them to
that address.)
Jason Wycoff <jason@socratec.de> wrote:
Hi Bill,
thanks for your thoughts. Something you wrote reminded me of another
problem which I have observed. Many of my questions and problems could
probably be answered by old posts to the news groups, but it seems that the
old posts are deleted at regular intervals, possibly to save space, reduce
traffic, or whatever. This is lost information and all new users end up
repeating the same posts again and again. Why isn’t the “best of” being
saved by anyone (I think this was previously done with the QNX Knowledge
Base)?
As Bill Caroselli mentioned in another post, old posts aren’t deleted. However,
some newsreaders will only load up N posts within a newsgroup. For example,
if you’re using “tin”, there’s a command line option “-G” that limits the
number of articles. If you omit “-G”, then you get all the posts.
YMMV esp on windoze boxen.
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Books, Video-based and Instructor-led
Training and Consulting at www.parse.com.
Email my initials at parse dot com.
Hi…
Jason Wycoff wrote:
<…>
I may have been lead to a full well, with the highest quality spring water,
but no one is providing a rope with a bucket on the end, and in the mean
time I don’t plan on suffering dehydration until it occurs to the owners of
the well that not everyone wants to climb down the well to get to the water.
…then that person dies…
Moral is: if you want the water, you will get the water regardless.
Favorite example: visit Cuba and you will see american cars from 1940’s
and 50’s still running on the streets… A great deal of recognition
goes to the 50’s cars themselves, but a greater deal goes to the cubans
that manage to get these cars running with pure ingenuity and little
else.
Application: QNX Neutrino is a very useful tool that you have at your
disposal. What you do with it and to what extent you use it, is
completely up to you, regardless.
Regards…
Miguel.
Miguel Simon <simon@ou.edu> wrote:
Hi…
Jason Wycoff wrote:
…
I may have been lead to a full well, with the highest quality spring water,
but no one is providing a rope with a bucket on the end, and in the mean
time I don’t plan on suffering dehydration until it occurs to the owners of
the well that not everyone wants to climb down the well to get to the water.
…then that person dies…
No, that person will go to another source of (may be poor quality) water
where the rope has been already installed.
Moral is: if you want the water, you will get the water regardless.
Favorite example: visit Cuba and you will see american cars from 1940’s
and 50’s still running on the streets… A great deal of recognition
goes to the 50’s cars themselves, but a greater deal goes to the cubans
that manage to get these cars running with pure ingenuity and little
else. >Application: QNX Neutrino is a very useful tool that you have at your
disposal. What you do with it and to what extent you use it, is
completely up to you, regardless.
Regards…
Miguel.