From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28356 invoked by alias); 19 Jul 2002 21:23:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 28346 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2002 21:23:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ns.helixdigital.com) (68.15.28.22) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Jul 2002 21:23:27 -0000 Received: from ns.helixdigital.com (alcocer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns.helixdigital.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6JLNRfs016517 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:23:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from alcocer@localhost) by ns.helixdigital.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g6JLMB4M015513 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 16:17:00 -0000 From: Dario Alcocer To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: FYI: HTML targets in "Smart Questions" Message-ID: <20020719142211.A31717@ns.helixdigital.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg01542.txt.bz2 FYI: I'm not sure if everyone realized this (I know *I* didn't until this afternoon), but the HTML source of Eric Raymond's "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" actually has HTML targets that you can use to refer to specific sections directly. So, rather than wasting time trying to answer a non-smart question, we would be better off referring the requester to a specific section of Raymond's document using the named targets. An example: Q. "Can I perform a directory recursion with grep? PLEASE HELP ME NOW!! I'M STUCK!!!" A. "See: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#AEN214 (first paragraph.)" -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/