common knowledge nirvana

[Andrew Hardie]

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> From: afsipmh at cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.ca
> Subject: Mail Redirection
> Date: 17 May 91 14:11:41 GMT
> Sender: Patrick Hertel <afsipmh at cid.aes.doe.ca>
> To:       info-unix at sem.brl.mil
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> Thanks to the many who answered my question about mail forwarding
> The almost unanimous consensus was cretaing a file  .forward
> with the foorwarding address in it. Despite the fact that no 
> man exists for it (an SGI running IRIX) it worked. I get the
> impression that this is pretty common knowledge. How the hell
> do you achieve this nirvana of "common knowledge" in UNIX!?
> I have RTFM'ed myself blind.
> -- 
> Pat Hertel                 Canadian Meteorological Centre
> Analyst/Programmer         2121 N. Service Rd.        
> phertel at cmc.aes.doe.ca     Dorval,Quebec             
> Environment Canada         CANADA           H9P1J3
>
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Perhaps, in addition to the regular "FAQ" posting, we need another, 
entitled "Knowledge Not In The Fine Manual", or KNIT FM for short.
Although being in England, I believe that could be interpreted as 
an American Radio joke.

I might even be persuaded to produce such a posting, if enough people
send me contributions. We could start with the one about what you get
if you put SCSI disks larger than 1.07GB on Interactive, or the one
about SCO TCP/IP not cleaning up wtmp afterwards, or the one about
how you are supposed to understand the FTP software's PC/TCP+ documentation 
on print redirection sufficiently after six readings to make it work with 
DOS Wordperfect, or how to actually make the ka9q net.exe program do 
*anything* from the doumentation supplied.

All contributions gratefully received, horror stories with happy endings
(good, solid tips, fixes and workarounds) even more welcome.

Andrew
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