Re: [cobalt-users] Re:I knew it would not be long.......

[Parker Morse <morse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, July 18, 2002, at 11:23  PM, Dan Kriwitsky wrote:
> A lot of people on the list look at the clueless I'm-too-lazy-to-search
> questions as a drive by shooting, so expect a flame reply.
> BTW, the reason I try to quote a link to the archive is to avoid the all
> too common follow-up "oops, I meant to say Ctrl+C not rm."
> It also points out that the answer is out there if you look for it.

Makes you feel like the meta-faq should be posted daily, doesn't it?

Seriously, this is the most important point: "The answer is there if you 
look for it." And if you're a newbie reading this, there are a few places 
to go BEFORE you ask the question you know might be stupid.

(a) A few weeks ago, a member posted this URL. If the original poster who 
drew the flame that started this thread had known about it, we wouldn't be 
here...
<http://www.ego.ws/linux/> "Linux commands". Notice #4, "ls", including 
the line, "ls -l will give you a long listing of a directory showing the 
attributes of its files and subdirectories."

(BTW, on my very first university unix account, I had aliased "ls" to mean 
"ls -l", because I seldom have much use for a plain ls. Of course, I've 
forgotten how I did it. Can anyone clue me in on that?)

(b) <http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/> are the archives by 
date, but you want to search them. Go here: 
<http://list.cobalt.com/cgi-
bin/htsearch?config=htdig&restrict=cobalt-users&>

As Peter Frederick posted to the list earlier this week, I've got 
anti-spam and AV for Cobalts pages in a state of 80%+ completeness at 
<http://bluebird.sinauer.com/~morse/cobalt/>. If the keeper of the 
meta-FAQ would like to add that URL, feel free. And if anyone else has 
something useful to add to those pages, please let me know, and I'd be 
happy to find a place for it.

pjm