On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 2009/6/12 Srijayanth Sridhar <srijaya...@gmail.com>: > > As we speak: > > > > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/339092 > > > > Jayanth > > Don't blame the poor chap here. Blame microsoft for that cryptic error > message. > > "'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command, > operable program or batch file." > > Does it mean 'nmake' is there and recognized as something else like a > text file? How can a newbie understand that nmake is not installed. > > I have seen so many people not staring at the error messages just > because they think they can't make a sense of the error messages. > Which is true to some extent. > > I remember some case like this in when I was doing my engineering. > After installing linux and using it for some days, it used to get boot > error "fsck: check forced". I didn't know what "check forced" means > and that was like a road block for me and all I could do was reinstall > linux from scratch again. I didn't had access to internet then, > otherwise I could have asked similar foolish(?) questions. > > I think we should be kind for people asking such questions and show > them the right way instead of flaming. > Boy have I opened a pandora's box or what?! Great thread so far. What you say is true, perhaps I should be kinder to him. However, I am not sure what I can tell him at the moment. I've no clue what exactly is up with his nmake :D Jayanth
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