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NewUser's guide to comp.sys.mac

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From: Laura Lemay
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1989 18:24
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OK, comp.unix.questions has a post that's posted every month with a whole
bunch of "most commonly asked questions on this newsgroup."

I've been reading this newsgroup for two years now.  We need one.

But obviously this is a HUGE task for one person.  So I'm going to make it
easy.

Pick your favourite most commonly asked question by a new user on this
bulletin board.  Write a few paragraphs to answer it.  Send it to me.
I'm a tech writer, so I'll make it into english-speak, rather than tech-speak
(so all you programmers, don't be afraid), compile everything, and then
post it to the net for comments.  Then we'll see about cronning it to
send out every month....


Some suggestions for the questions everyone's most sick of hearing:

1.  How do I download files? (ALSO:  what does SIT!  mean??)
2.  Whats the most recent version of X?
3.  How do I get a postscript file of a mac document?
4.  (lots of other postscript printing questions)
5.  How do I rebuild the desktop (why would I want to rebuild the desktop?)


And this list is just what I saw while reading this newgroup from the last 
week!  :-)


-Laura Lemay			lemay%lorelei@sun.com
Redhead.  Drummer.  Geek.
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From: lemay@lorelei.Sun.COM (Laura Lemay)
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Subject: NewUser's guide to comp.sys.mac
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