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Re: IT WORKS!! :)

From: "Mark H. Wood" <mwood AT IUPUI.Edu>
To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: IT WORKS!! :)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 08:57:10 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, James K. Lowden wrote:
> Patrick Amirian wrote:
>
> > this software needs documentation big time if you want this to succeed...
> > the documentation is very poor. Nothing at all for PHP!!?!
>
> Well, not nothing, precisely.
>
> http://www.freetds.org/userguide/x621.htm
>
> Not enough, not right, not clear, possibly. Waddya expect from a bunch of
> amateurs
> with no real skill in English, after all?
>
> If you would be so kind as to point out the errors and failings of this
> page (apart
> from there not being any link to it on the web site, we're working on
> that), I'll try
> to incorporate your feedback. Anything you want to rewrite or annotate is
> welcome,
> too.
>
> Welcome. I wish your road had been smoother.

Bless you. Open-source projects need more responses like this, and fewer
of the form, "well, if you need documentation to understand the program,
write some."

--
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood AT IUPUI.Edu
Make a good day.

IT WORKS!! :), Patrick Amirian, 04/26/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: IT WORKS!! :), Jez Humble, 04/26/2001
- Re: IT WORKS!! :), Chris Wood, 04/26/2001
- Re: IT WORKS!! :), James K. Lowden, 04/26/2001
- Re: IT WORKS!! :), Mark H. Wood, 04/27/2001