🚀 go-pugleaf

Actually, the maintainer for things like iverilog, gtkwave, and tightvnc is a
single person, so they prefer not to get tons of personal email.  They're
usually pretty good about keeping abreast of the mailing list contents.
Other freeware, like mingw, cygnus, and vnc also maintain a forum via
mailing lists, and developers/gurus look there to see if they can answer
any questions.  Like anyone else, they too lack the time to take ownership
of deep problems, and it is a great thing that they even look to help out
of good will; in fact, the very existence of those forums are a charity, as is
the freeware itself.  As is typical with freeware and free support, you are
expected to do your homework and take a shot at things before submitting
stale or trivial questions.  I've missed a few obvious things sometimes, and
they often make good-natured accommodations, though depending on the
culture of the list, you may get a serious reminder.

Fred

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred Ma
Department of Electronics
Carleton University, Mackenzie Building
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada     K1S 5B6
fma@doe.carleton.ca
==========================================================================

Nhi Vanye wrote:

> $ from fma@doe.carleton.ca -#133996 | sed "1,$s/^/> /"
> >
> >
> >Thanks, Nhi,  it worked.
> >
> >Yes, time is an issue.  I am an aspiring hardware guy, so I've been learning
> >about software build procedures by reading web manuals on make, and by
> >endless trial/error.  Didn't help.  Also spent uncountable hours reading
> >and posting to
> >mailing lists for various freeware to get it to run.  This is one of
> >many freeware
> >solutions I've "thoroughly" investigated for my problem, each one involving a
> >sizable learning curve, and representing that much more catch-up to be done.
> >Doubtlessly, if my work involved expertise in software, I would have done it
> >faster, and I would have more expertise/familiarity/time with which to fix the
> >build scripts or even the source code.  But the most realistic thing for me to
> >do right now is to post my findings on the maling list for that
> >freeware.
>
> The other option is to send the info to the freeware maintainers for
> your OS (I presume Sun has a freeware project, SGI does, we get requests
> for the freeware project to support new applictions all the time, some
> we even do :-)).
>
> >Fred
>
> richard.
> --
> Richard Offer                         Technical Lead, Trust Technology.
> "Specialization is for insects"
> __________________________________________http://reality.sgi.com/offer/