Annual Reminder: How To Ask For Help

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Thu, 26 May 2011, Kenneth Brody wrote:

> ...
> > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
> >
> > This one is called "How to report bugs effectively", and it's by Simon
> > Tatham whom some of you will recognize -- all right, all right; let's not
> > always see the same hands -- as the author of the PuTTY terminal emulator.

Simon touches indirectly on a favorite point of mine, which I summarize 
thus: "You are not allowed to use the words 'something like' when 
reporting an error message" :-)

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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