Re: RamFAST Manual & Nathan

[Toby Reiter <treiter@cs.oberlin.edu>]

On 27 Mar 1997, Tilghman Lesher wrote:

> In article <5hdvm7$o72$1@europa.frii.com>, 
> Randy Shackelford (shack@deimos.frii.com) wrote:
> : In article <5h6t98$lid@borg.svpal.org>,
> : Paul Creager <wily@svpal.svpal.org> wrote:
> 
> : [snip]
> 
> : >: Too bad he won't put any effort into giving useful info on transferring
> : >: files from MacOS to ProDOS 8 in there.
> : >
> : >A) What does that have to do with the RamFast manual?
> 
> : Nothing directly. Just wondering why some info goes into the FAQ and some 
> : does not.
> 
> : >B) Since you're the cross-platform guy around here, why don't you write
> : >   about transferring between P8 and other OS's?  Like you said, some
> : >   folks are interested.
> 
> : Where you been? I have been trying to get useful and accurate info there
> : for a while. It started to look like you know who didn't want any such
> : info made public. Finally it's there (sorta) but not without a bunch
> : of unnecessary BS. Ironic being that the guy whose sig says shun wishful
> : thinking and ask what are the facts or whatever it says is the author.
> 
> No, Randy.  WRITE the documentation yourself.  Don't beg Nathan to do it.
> WRITE it.  This was the point of the previous post.  If you're the guy
> who knows how to do it, WRITE it.  Nathan WRITES quite a lot of the FAQ
> now, and if he doesn't know personally how to WRITE what you're asking
> for, then you should WRITE it yourself.
> 
> Have you gotten the subliminal message yet?

I tell you what.  How about Randy writes the stuff, and Nathan puts it in
the FAQ.  The problem here is not that Randy refuses to help out with
this, but that Nathan seems unwilling to put the new info into the FAQ in
a useful fashion.  Because the comp.sys.apple2 FAQ constitutes the main
place for having info about the Apple II, having Randy write his own
specific FAQ on transferring to from a Mac will be useless, since people
would not now to look for it.  By the way, I should say this is the first
time I've seen a problem come and be solved with Nathan refusing to put it
in the FAQ.  In all other instances, he immediately adds the new
information (who's the platform pusher now, buddy?).

Toby