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Re: [ccp4bb]: Amore error message



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Or we could officially define RTFM to stand for "Read The
FAQ's/ManPages,
which I'm sure is what David Schuller meant in the first place. Surely
he
wasn't referring to anything as offensive as reading a *manual*, that
dusty
relic of the premodern industrial age.

	Ed
	PS for dvd: s/FAQ's/FAQs/g

"Soisson, Stephen Michael" wrote:
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> Given what the "F" in RTFM stands for, I doubt that I am alone in thinking
> that the phrase is a universally offensive thing to say to someone who poses
> an innocent question.  Not that I disagree with you in principle here, but
> might I propose that we all find a "kinder, gentler" way of referring one to
> the manual?
> 
> Steve
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anastassis Perrakis [mailto:perrakis@nki.nl]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 10:56 AM
> To: Ricardo Aparicio; ccp4bb@dl.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb]: Amore error message
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> Hi -
> 
> > While running Amore I've got the error message bellow.
> > Model seems to be OK.
> 
> Well, I am again tempted to remind the famous hierarchy of approaches to
> problems. The undisputed nr.1 choice was unanimously proposed to be RTFM.