Subject: Re: dir command/FAQ

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 11:29:39 +0800

As one of the people who are having problems setting up ftp, I have to agree
with the suggestion about adding the FAQ to the welcome letter.  On the other 
hand, I do not agree with it's tone.

There is NO mention of an FAQ anywhere in the documentation for wu-ftp, or 
in the new user info letter that is sent upon joining this mailing list.

I have lurked for several weeks now waiting for ANY mention of an FAQ, and this 
was the first mention of it.

I resent the authors opinion that those of us having problems did not
read the "fine" manual.  I read it, and still have problems.  If there
is a requirement for statically linked libraries, then the manual 
should say so, instead of saying you can either copy the libraries,
or recompile the binaries statically. 

The author also assumes that we all knew where the FAQ is.  This was the
first I have even heard of an FAQ.  

I have to think that if this many folks who are reading the manual are
having difficulties, then maybe the manual needs to be re-written.

>>>Ericw

> 
> I don't agree on this one. The next thing that will not run is tar, compress,
> gzip and other convertors.
> 
> The basic rule is :
> 
> - Find statically linked versions of ls, tar, gzip
> 
> or
> 
> - Find out which libraries these programs need and copy those libraries to
> ~ftp/lib
> 
> Complete answers for both are in the FAQ at
> http://www.hvu.nl/~koos/wu-ftpd-faq.html
> 
> In general : this list is not about the newest 'simpleterm for windows', it's
> about a special kind of ftp-server. Which means (in my opinion) that people
> should read the manual first, read the faq too, read all the readme's that
> come with wu-ftpd, and *then* ask questions.
> 
> I would very much appriciate it if the 'new user info' for this list contained
> a pointer to the current faq. The info-page at wuarchive itself for the ftpd
> contains the pointer. (that's http://www.hvu.nl/~koos/wu-ftpd-faq.html again).
>