From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: zoneinfo
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 21:59:58 +0000
Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
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> >> >This is explained at some length in the DJGPP FAQ list, section
> >> >22.16.
> >>
> >> Why waste everyone's time by posting this kind of useless answer? If
> >> you didn't want to answer the question, you shouldn't have bothered
> >> replying to it. DJ himself thought the question deserved a *real*
> >> answer....
> >
> >finally, by posting a succint and correct answer, eli is saving
> >everyone's time.
> 
> HA! All you're really saying is with this kind of answer is that you don't
> know the anwser to the question. Think about it.

Eli wrote the FAQ.  He spends a tremendous amount of time explaining
things to people on this user group, and it so happens that chapter
22.16 was written to answer the exact question you asked.  Why should he
bother typing it out again if you can't be bothered to read it in the
first place?  That's the whole purpose of the FAQ list.

It's perfectly reasonable for newbies to DJGPP to ask FAQs, and
generally most people will answer their questions briefly and refer them
to the FAQ for more information.  But if you already know that the FAQ
list exists, why not go to it _first_ instead of last?  Then you'd save
yourself the embarrassment of being told to look there, and save
everybody else the annoyance of reading this kind of thread.

P.S.:  DJ's answer was just a summary of what the FAQ says.

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