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authorMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-03-27 00:37:40 +0000
committerMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-03-27 00:37:40 +0000
commit5c3c294025ffc19d578cdd173197ea23c883b55d (patch)
tree1c0be6d0f057763e8714ed3b55459d83bd19ed6a
parent50c60900ff90210d3c734defe431710b3aee40b0 (diff)
[Bug 319]: Added reference to ESR's smart-questions document.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1769 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml3
-rw-r--r--chapter02/askforhelp.xml7
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index dfc25e9c9..5c78004af 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@
</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>March 26th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 02 - Asking for help:
+Added reference to ESR's smart-questions document.</para></listitem>
+
<listitem><para>March 25th, 2002 [markh]: Binutils - Added libopcodes
library description.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/chapter02/askforhelp.xml b/chapter02/askforhelp.xml
index 4be0ad791..86dbef18b 100644
--- a/chapter02/askforhelp.xml
+++ b/chapter02/askforhelp.xml
@@ -75,6 +75,13 @@ quoted above is what should be included to be helpful, because it
includes the command that was executed and the command's error
message(s).</para>
+<para>An excellent article on asking for help on the Internet in general
+has been written by Eric S. Raymond. It is available online at <ulink
+url="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html">http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html</ulink>.
+Read and follow the hints in this document and you are much more likely
+to get a response to start with and also to get the help you actually
+need.</para>
+
</sect2>
</sect1>