SCO printing over TCP/IP

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: SCO printing over TCP/IP


> On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 08:55:21AM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
>> Installation is just "unpack the tar in the root dir"
>
> Which, of course, actually means "do a tar tvf[z] and see what's going
> to be unpacked, and then unpack it under /tmp/whatever and look at it
> first."
>
> Cheers,
> -- jr 'paranoid?  me?? :-)' a
>
> [No offense, Brian...]

None taken, I would never blindly run such a command myself no matter who 
handed it to me, and there are people I do trust completely.

However, My choices are spend a lot of effort teaching basic sensibilities 
to everyone I wish to help for free, or just provide the command which _I_ 
know won't hurt them, and anyone who has enough clue and actually desires to 
spend the extra 5 seconds, will not need me to tell them how to take my 
given command and do the spritual equivalent of their choice.

Many times, trying to help someone not shoot themselves in the foot is so 
thankless that it's just a form of me shooting my own self in the foot by 
seeming (in their eyes) to have assumed any spec of responsibility for their 
problem. Or by telling them of what can happen, the reasons behind various 
basic procedures, they misread that as it probably will happen and worry 
about it so much they think they should not touch anything or allow anyone 
else to do even the basic maintenance they _need_ to do.

So I rarely bother. Whenever anyone asks and seems to actually care about 
doing something right instead of of "I want it to magically work, 
immediately, without me knowing anything, or paying someone who does, or 
spending more than 5 seconds working at it" then I'm happy to provide 
whatever excuse for wisdom I have. The more people who do things right, or 
as right as they can, or at least _try_, or at least _care_ one way or the 
other even if for whatever reason they can't avoid some dirty hack, the 
better off we all are, so it's in everyones interest to be helpful. I do get 
that.

Brian K. White    brian at aljex.com    http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR
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