Re: Providing pointers to more generic help

2008-12-29 Thread John Sullivan
"James Youngman" writes: > The logical thing to do is put a single web page somewhere on > www.gnu.org and include in that page things that help users find > resources to help them. I've made an outline of such a document > below. It would likely be an enhancement to the document currently >

Re: Providing pointers to more generic help

2008-12-23 Thread jemarch
Hi. The logical thing to do is put a single web page somewhere on www.gnu.org and include in that page things that help users find resources to help them. I've made an outline of such a document below. It would likely be an enhancement to the document currently at

Providing pointers to more generic help

2008-12-20 Thread James Youngman
Having inhabited a number of GNU mailing lists for few years now, I see that people occasionally email them with wholly unrelated problems. My current guess is that this happens because they happen to see --help output from a GNU program or see the BUGS section of some GNU manpage, and decide to