From 5c3c294025ffc19d578cdd173197ea23c883b55d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Hymers Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 00:37:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [Bug 319]: Added reference to ESR's smart-questions document. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1769 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter01/changelog.xml | 3 +++ chapter02/askforhelp.xml | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index dfc25e9c9..5c78004af 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ +March 26th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 02 - Asking for help: +Added reference to ESR's smart-questions document. + March 25th, 2002 [markh]: Binutils - Added libopcodes library description. diff --git a/chapter02/askforhelp.xml b/chapter02/askforhelp.xml index 4be0ad791..86dbef18b 100644 --- a/chapter02/askforhelp.xml +++ b/chapter02/askforhelp.xml @@ -75,6 +75,13 @@ quoted above is what should be included to be helpful, because it includes the command that was executed and the command's error message(s). +An excellent article on asking for help on the Internet in general +has been written by Eric S. Raymond. It is available online at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html. +Read and follow the hints in this document and you are much more likely +to get a response to start with and also to get the help you actually +need. +