Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:10:41 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid (Graaagh the Mighty)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:38:52 GMT
> 
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:27:54 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
> <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> sat on a tribble, which squeaked:
> 
> >It's all in the Intel manuals; please read them.
> 
> Or what? You'll flame me?

No, you will simply remain in your current state of lack of knowledge,
since I don't expect enybody to post such a detailed and complicated
description as what's in the Intel manuals.

> I sure *hope* that participating on this newsgroup without being
> ostracized, flamed, laughed at, or otherwise looked down upon

So far the only flaming person here is you.

> doesn't demand one buy copies of big expensive manuals

They are freely available for downloading from the Intel site.

> I'm also concerned with the evidence that I have seen recently that
> asking a certain class of "silly" question will provoke a
> lambasting.

The only thing that is bound to provoke lambasting is lambasting--yours,
for example.  You have been laughing, mocking, and generally abusing
everyone who tried to help you debug your code, since you've started
your endless threads.  What did you expect in return?