From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) Subject: Re: Seyon 1.7 Date: 7 Jan 1993 08:08:33 -0600
danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.010930.1477@athena.mit.edu> ss@uucp writes:
>>Seyon, like almost all other source distributions, untars in ./seyon.
>>If you untar it in / it'll branch off you root directory, if you untar
>>it in /bin it'll brach off that, and so on for the rest. A reasonable
>>setup would be to untar all source distributions in /usr/src or
>>/usr/local/src.
>OK, Muhammad, let me start by saying that I am all for saving Bosnia.
>I also thank you for personally responding to me regarding you software.
>However, you have to realize that many of us are in a different league
>here in the Unix front; for many of us Linux is a tool for learning
>Unix. That means that some of us, myself included, are not very
>knowledgeable about the tar utility, either. In fact, for some reason
>the tar man page is also useless in my set up (SLS 0.99), as when I
>invoke it, I get a text that starts like this:
[ stuff deleted ...]
>People will choose to read it if it's accessible and logically placed,
>something like the README or README.1ST files in most DOS packages.
>The problem with your docs is that they are accessible only AFTER seyon
>is installed, in the form of a man page. In my case even that didn't
>work. That's pretty frustrating, because everybody who mmanaged to get
>it going is praising Seyon. So, let me do the same, will you?
>Thanks,
>Joe Pannon
I understand that this is a new experience for most people. They are
installing and using unix for the first time. But, there are other news groups
out there other than this one.
People seem to think that since they installed linux, that only the linux
group has answers. Comp.unix.questions would be able to answer questions
about tar for instance. Also, since this was a problem with installation,
emailing the author would also work. This news group gets way too many
question that could better be answered in other groups or just by email.
I not trying to say people shouldn't post problems here, but use your
heads first. If its a unix question in general, post it to a general
unix group.
James