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Bill Wright pegasus at sc.rr.com
Thu Jan 6 23:15:47 UTC 2011


On 01/06/2011 06:05 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Bill Wright<pegasus at sc.rr.com>  wrote:
>> On 01/06/2011 02:19 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Ian Coetzee<ubuntu at iancoetzee.za.net>
>>>   wrote:
>>> :
>>>> I guess the best thing Linux taught me is to actually READ the README
>>>> file and I would suggest anyone else try that too ;)
>> Thanks for the help, If I could have found the answer I would not have
>> indulged this list.
>>
> To be fair, not all README or INSTALL files are written well enough
> for someone who's never used one before.
>
> For future reference, in general the ./configure, make, make install
> pattern is fairly consistent across most UNIX/Linux platforms.
>
Thank you I appreciate your reply


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