How to be helpful

[Gilles Gravier]

I'm French. "menu" is something I look at while imagining the great meal 
I'm about to have. :D

Gilles.

Jeffrey Tooker wrote:
> Alan Milnes wrote:
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>> Gilles Gravier wrote:
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>>> Teaching by example is a VERY (if not THE MOST) efficient way to teach.
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>> Absolutely - that's why most man pages are useless if you don't know how 
>> to run the basic command.  Once you've got the hang of
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>> /usr/sbin/flibbler then the man pages can be very helpful but very few of them will help you if you are really struggling to get the basic command going.
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>> Alan
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> Alan:
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> It is a language problem. As a newbie it is one of the reasons I stay on 
> this list. As I read various postings the "language" and structure 
> starts to make sense. Even the definitions common words are different. 
> Take menu as an example.
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> Jeffrey
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