[plug] Newbys guide (after this message, I promise not to post any more tonight)

[James Devenish]

In message <41FCC9B1.408 at tpg.com.au>
on Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:49:05PM +0800, Kev wrote:
> Somewhere back near the beginning of this thread I said something like
> there's so much stuff out there that the unintiated like I simply
> don't know where to start.  If I was to read through all that stuff
> looking for my problem explained in words of 2 syllables or less I'd
> need 2 more lifetimes.  RTFM (I know that one) is NOT a valid answer,
> because TFM is too bloody big and too bloody contradictory.  The irony
> is that you have to have passed the iniation to make sense of TFM.

Perhaps another overlooked resource: bookstore or library. Possibly,
someone's spent a lot of time writing a book to help you. I see people
with "Windows for Dummies" books (or similar) all the time. [Now ducking
out before anyone asks what's in the PLUG library.]