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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: How compiler finds files ?
Date: 1998/02/09
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vonhend@ibm.com says

<<Oh, no, Mr. Dewar.  This kind of activity is to be performed only as a last
resort, when all other avenues of inquiry have failed. ;)
>>

The sad thing is that the above most definitely needs the smiley that came
with it, because all too many people do indeed follow this advice (the
activity in question was reading the manuals). All too often these days,
students fire off a massively cross-posted message asking a question,
hoping for a reply (and not only students for that matter). The trouble
is that given the population of the newsgroups these days, the result
is all too often the blind leading the blind into a blind alley!