Re: Posting guide

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 2008/7/28 Rubén Roa-Ureta <address@hidden>:
>> Being new to the list, I was trying to find a posting guide, like there
>> is for example for R, to no avail (maybe I didn't try hard). So, is
>> there a posting guide to ask questions about Octave to the experts?
>
> I don't think we have one, but I'm not sure we need one either. Tell
> us what you want to happen, what is actually happening, show us any
> error messages you get, and show us the code you're typing. Oh, and be
> nice. That seems like common sense to me, but lawyers have shown that
> common sense often needs to be codified.
>

There is always this:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

> So, ask away.
>
> - Jordi G. H.
>

Dmitri.
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