On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Rob Warner wrote: > I take it you missed the flap last week or so about newbie documentation :)
Or he's very brave... :) Actually, he was quite polite and undemanding... > I'll give you a perspective of a (self-proclaimed) Windows stud > transitioning to Linux. It is very, very hard. Even as I type this > (in mutt) I'm putting in my own hard returns because I have no clue > how to set my margins to 72 chars, and I don't want to get flamed. > It took me weeks to understand what exim & fetchmail are, how they > work together, how to configure them, etc. I looked and looked for > documentation, went to local bookstores, etc., and got completely > frustrated. The man pages made my eyes glaze over. I don't use Mutt all the time, but you can set it to 72 by typing :set columns=72 If you're using a vi-type editor. You can tell mutt what editor to use by setting that up in a local .muttrc - and then set up your vi clone to default to 72 columns if you're always using it for mail w/mutt. If you want, I can send you my .vimrc to get you started... > Admittedly, I'm a busy kind of guy, and I spend 30 minutes here, > an hour there, to get this Linux system up and running. Keep that in > mind. And I'm not crying or demanding that people write me > better documentation. I'm just trying to paint a possible picture > of what you might be signing up for by getting friends to run Linux. > They will call you ALL THE TIME ;-) Hey, what are friends for? :) On the plus side, you can usually get a lot of free pizza and dinners that way... :) Keep plugging, eventually it'll be a piece of cake. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 43599611 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books... Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will. Boys ought to grow up remembering that." "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" -- James Stewart
