Re: RTFM (was: CPYF behaviour)

[keith.nolan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

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>What we have now is a list primarily frequented by people who don't know 
>things and can't even 
>be bothered checking the available sources of information.  Every AS/400 site 
>has manuals, 
>either printed or on softcopy, and almost every question asked here recently 
>can be answered 
>by an intelligent search of the manuals.  However, it seems easier for most 
>people to simply 
>fire off a request to the list.


I'm very new to the AS/400 (We used to run an old System/36 here) and recently 
just completed some introductory courses in some aspects of the AS/400.  It was 
while on one of those courses that I heard of this list and I thought that it 
was a great idea.  I have posted several times to this list with Queries that I 
am sure I would have eventually sorted if I ploughed through some of the 
manuals here but I thought that the whole idea of this list was to pool sources 
of information and solutions to some of the easier problems as well as 
discussing the AS/400 and how to take over the world.  I know that you were 
waiting for this but the way our organisation works here means that I spend 
only about 10% of my time working on the AS/400 along with everything else our 
department has to deal with and I would love to have the time to read some 
manuals but it just isn't possible and that is why I post to this list.  I 
don't force anybody to reply to my queries and waste their time but if someone 
else knows the solution and posts it then it has helped out a fellow 
programmer.  Well it's just how I feel about this subject.

Regards

Keith
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