[Info-vax] "Why are people so unkind?" - Kamahl

[Richard Maher]

Hi Steven,

"Steven Schweda" <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:10d02322-8aaa-4a41-bced-164c9457e7d4 at u41g2000yqe.googlegroups.com...
> Richard Maher wrote:
> > Shit, you're not giving too much away guys are ya? Look I know it's free
> > advice but some real commands with some real examples would really help
> > here. Where's Steven Schweda when you need him? Actual commands and
actual
> > output?
>
>    To avoid long, rambling, repetitious, cryptic, vulgar,
> pointless tirades, he normally stops reading when he sees
> 'From: "Richard Maher"' at the beginning of a posting.
>
>    Then, given a description as vacuous as "one of these
> lovely Itanium boxes that has pretty recent formware", he
> tends to wonder why anyone wouldn't simply put the actual
> model number into a search window at hp.com, and get the
> actual manuals.  He might have tried it himself, if he had
> found any useful info in the original complaint.
>
> > Anyway, I don't have a serial cable (I thought those were some dodgy pin
> > arrangement that was as common as hen's teeth?) [...]
>
>    Again, lacking any useful info, I'll assume that this
> refers to one of those serial ports where a simple cable
> connects to the most-likely-desired port, and the complex
> official cable is needed only for the other two,
> less-likely-desired, ports (details of which are available in
> many places on the Web, if one actually needs them).
>
>    Before complaining about the poor quality of the responses
> to a request, one might profitably consider the low quality of
> the request itself.
>
>    He, by the way, had no particular trouble configuring his
> own zx2000 and rx2600 systems, using a simple serial cable
> (from a DECserver), by following the instructions in the
> manuals which he downloaded for these systems from hp.com.

Cheers then.

Richard Maher